Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting perf package, versions <0:6.1.29-47.49.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-PERF-13551897
  • published15 Oct 2025
  • disclosed1 Oct 2025

Introduced: 1 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2023-53474  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 perf to version 0:6.1.29-47.49.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2023-184.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf 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:

x86/MCE/AMD: Use an u64 for bank_map

Thee maximum number of MCA banks is 64 (MAX_NR_BANKS), see

a0bc32b3cacf ("x86/mce: Increase maximum number of banks to 64").

However, the bank_map which contains a bitfield of which banks to initialize is of type unsigned int and that overflows when those bit numbers are >= 32, leading to UBSAN complaining correctly:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c:1365:38 shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'

Change the bank_map to a u64 and use the proper BIT_ULL() macro when modifying bits in there.

[ bp: Rewrite commit message. ]

CVSS Base Scores

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