CVE-2023-53073 Affecting kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package, versions <0:6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELDEBUGINFOCOMMONX8664-10495416
  • published24 Jun 2025
  • disclosed2 May 2025

Introduced: 2 May 2025

CVE-2023-53073  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 to version 0:6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2023-160.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 package and not the kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 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:

perf/x86/amd/core: Always clear status for idx

The variable 'status' (which contains the unhandled overflow bits) is not being properly masked in some cases, displaying the following warning:

WARNING: CPU: 156 PID: 475601 at arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:972 amd_pmu_v2_handle_irq+0x216/0x270

This seems to be happening because the loop is being continued before the status bit being unset, in case x86_perf_event_set_period() returns 0. This is also causing an inconsistency because the "handled" counter is incremented, but the status bit is not cleaned.

Move the bit cleaning together above, together when the "handled" counter is incremented.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1