– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202408-31
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
https:\/\/security.gentoo.org\/
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n
Severity: Normal
Title: protobuf, protobuf-python: Denial of Service
Date: August 12, 2024
Bugs: #872434
ID: 202408-31<\/p>\n
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n
Synopsis
=======
A vulnerability has been discovered in protobuf and protobuf-python,
which can lead to a denial of service.<\/p>\n
Background
=========
Google’s Protocol Buffers are an extensible mechanism for serializing
structured data.<\/p>\n
Affected packages
================
Package Vulnerable Unaffected
————————– ———— ————
dev-libs\/protobuf < 3.20.3 >= 3.20.3
dev-python\/protobuf-python < 3.19.6 >= 3.19.6<\/p>\n
Description
==========
A vulnerability has been discovered in protobuf and protobuf-python.
Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.<\/p>\n
Impact
=====
A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type 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.<\/p>\n
Workaround
=========
There is no known workaround at this time.<\/p>\n
Resolution
=========
All protobuf and protobuf-python users should upgrade to the latest
version:<\/p>\n
# emerge –sync
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>\u00dev-libs\/protobuf-3.20.3”
# emerge –ask –oneshot –verbose “>\u00dev-python\/protobuf-python-3.19.6”<\/p>\n
References
=========
[ 1 ] CVE-2022-1941
https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2022-1941<\/p>\n
Availability
===========
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/security.gentoo.org\/glsa\/202408-31<\/p>\n
Concerns?
========
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users’ machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org.<\/p>\n
License
======
Copyright 2024 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).<\/p>\n
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons – Attribution \/ Share Alike license.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202408-31– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}