Summary
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):
* python: protobuf: Protobuf: Denial of Service due to recursion depth bypass (CVE-2026-0994)
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.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| Rocky Linux · 10 | protobuf | 0:3.19.6-15.el10_1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.2CVE-2026-0994 Public exploit
Denial of Service in Python Protobuf
A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in google.protobuf.json_format.ParseDict() in Python, where the max_recursion_depth limit can be bypassed when parsing nested google.protobuf.Any messages. Due to missing recursion depth accounting inside the int…
References
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report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2432398