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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-53670: Important priority package update for kernel

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 7, 2025
Added
Oct 24, 2025
Modified
Oct 24, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak
Call dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_tolerance() in the error unwind patch to
avoid following kmemleak:-
blktests (master) # kmemleak-clear; ./check nvme/044;
blktests (master) # kmemleak-scan ; kmemleak-show
nvme/044 (Test bi-directional authentication) [passed]
runtime 2.111s ... 2.124s
unreferenced object 0xffff888110c46240 (size 96):
comm "nvme", pid 33461, jiffies 4345365353 (age 75.586s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000069ac2cec>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90
[<000000006acc66d5>] dev_pm_qos_update_user_latency_tolerance+0x6f/0x100
[<00000000cc376ea7>] nvme_init_ctrl+0x38e/0x410 [nvme_core]
[<000000007df61b4b>] 0xffffffffc05e88b3
[<00000000d152b985>] 0xffffffffc05744cb
[<00000000f04a4041>] vfs_write+0xc5/0x3c0
[<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
[<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

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