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High RHSA-2025:7138 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: protobuf security update

Published May 14, 2025 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 14

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream protobuf 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream protobuf-compiler-debuginfo 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream protobuf-debuginfo 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream protobuf-debugsource 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream protobuf-lite 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream protobuf-lite-debuginfo 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream python3-protobuf 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-compiler 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-compiler-debuginfo 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-debuginfo 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-debugsource 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-devel 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-lite-debuginfo 0:3.14.0-16.el9
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::crb protobuf-lite-devel 0:3.14.0-16.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2022-1941

    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…

    Google protobuf-python protobuf-cpp mysql Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux PyPI

References

  • article
    https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.6_release_notes/index
  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2291470
  • article
    https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-40572
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_7138.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1941
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1941
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1941
  • article
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/27/1
  • article
    https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#GCP-2022-019
  • article
    https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/security/advisories/GHSA-8gq9-2x98-w8hf