Memory Leak Affecting bpftool package, versions <0:6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-BPFTOOL-9520162
  • published27 Mar 2025
  • disclosed21 Oct 2024

Introduced: 21 Oct 2024

CVE-2024-47737  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 bpftool to version 0:6.1.115-126.197.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-794.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfsd: call cache_put if xdr_reserve_space returns NULL

If not enough buffer space available, but idmap_lookup has triggered lookup_fn which calls cache_get and returns successfully. Then we missed to call cache_put here which pairs with cache_get.

Reviwed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

CVSS Base Scores

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