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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2020-5235 EUVD-2020-26456GHSA-6f6v-26gj-6crp

Out-of-memory condition in Nanopb is potentially exploitable

Published Feb 4, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

There is a potentially exploitable out of memory condition In Nanopb before 0.4.1, 0.3.9.5, and 0.2.9.4. When nanopb is compiled with PB_ENABLE_MALLOC, the message to be decoded contains a repeated string, bytes or message field and realloc() runs out of memory when expanding the array nanopb can end up calling `free()` on a pointer value that comes from uninitialized memory. Depending on platform this can result in a crash or further memory corruption, which may be exploitable in some cases. This problem is fixed in nanopb-0.4.1, nanopb-0.3.9.5, nanopb-0.2.9.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nanopb Nanopb < 0.2.9.4, >= 0.3.0, < 0.3.9.5, >= 0.4.0, < 0.4.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed nanopb 0.4.5-1.3 openSUSE-SU-2024:11074-1

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