Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting kernel-debuginfo package, versions <1:6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELDEBUGINFO-15920344
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed18 Mar 2026

Introduced: 18 Mar 2026

CVE-2025-71268  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-debuginfo to version 1:6.1.163-186.299.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2026-1468.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo package and not the kernel-debuginfo 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:

btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent

If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from __cow_file_range_inline() without freeing the reserved qgroup data, resulting in a leak. Fix this by ensuring we call btrfs_qgroup_free_data() in such cases.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1