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Medium ALAS2-2023-1973 1 CVE

Moderate: protobuf security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Mar 2, 2023 · Updated Mar 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-1941: A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 3.21.5 for protobuf-cpp, and versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 4.21.5 for protobuf-python can lead to out of memory failures. A specially crafted message with multiple key-value per elements creates parsing issues, and can lead to a Denial of Service against services receiving unsanitized input. We recommend upgrading to versions 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 3.21.6 for protobuf-cpp and 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 4.21.6 for protobuf-python. Versions for 3.16 and 3.17 are no longer updated.

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-compiler 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-debuginfo 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-devel 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-emacs 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-emacs-el 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-java 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-javadoc 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-lite 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-lite-devel 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-lite-static 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-python 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-static 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 protobuf-vim 0:2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    Out of Memory issue in ProtocolBuffers for cpp and python

    A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 3.21.5 for protobuf-cpp, and versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 4.21.5 fo…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-1941.html