Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-3433-03 - An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: protobuf security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:3433-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3433
Issue date: 2024-05-28
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2021-22570
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Summary:
An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
The protobuf packages provide Protocol Buffers, Google's data interchange format. Protocol Buffers can encode structured data in an efficient yet extensible format, and provide a flexible, efficient, and automated mechanism for serializing structured data.
Security Fix(es):
* protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2021-22570
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049429