Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <1:6.1.159-181.297.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-PERFDEBUGINFO-14904740
  • published9 Jan 2026
  • disclosed16 Dec 2025

Introduced: 16 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-68173  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 perf-debuginfo to version 1:6.1.159-181.297.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-1350.

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:

ftrace: Fix softlockup in ftrace_module_enable

A soft lockup was observed when loading amdgpu module. If a module has a lot of tracable functions, multiple calls to kallsyms_lookup can spend too much time in RCU critical section and with disabled preemption, causing kernel panic. This is the same issue that was fixed in commit d0b24b4e91fc ("ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels") and commit 42ea22e754ba ("ftrace: Add cond_resched() to ftrace_graph_set_hash()").

Fix it the same way by adding cond_resched() in ftrace_module_enable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1