Memory Leak Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-PERFDEBUGINFO-10339393
  • published11 Jun 2025
  • disclosed8 Jun 2024

Introduced: 8 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-36967  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 perf-debuginfo to version 0:6.1.92-99.174.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-993.

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:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

KEYS: trusted: Fix memory leak in tpm2_key_encode()

'scratch' is never freed. Fix this by calling kfree() in the success, and in the error case.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1