Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.225-121.357.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-PERFDEBUGINFO-1726427
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed17 Feb 2021

Introduced: 17 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-26931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.225-121.357.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2021-1487.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf-debuginfo package and not the perf-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel 2.6.39 through 5.10.16, as used in Xen. Block, net, and SCSI backends consider certain errors a plain bug, deliberately causing a kernel crash. For errors potentially being at least under the influence of guests (such as out of memory conditions), it isn't correct to assume a plain bug. Memory allocations potentially causing such crashes occur only when Linux is running in PV mode, though. This affects drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c and drivers/xen/xen-scsiback.c.

CVSS Scores

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