Fedora 42: Severe Uncontrolled Recursion Flaw in rust-protobuf-parse
fedora
October 15, 2025
Update mirrorlist-server to version 3.0.8
Summary
Parse `.proto` files. Files are parsed into a
`protobuf::descriptor::FileDescriptorSet` object using either: * pure
rust parser (no dependencies) * `protoc` binary (more reliable and
compatible with Google's implementation).
Update Information:
Update mirrorlist-server to version 3.0.8. Update the maxminddb crate to version 0.26.0. Update the prometheus crate to version 0.14.0. Update the protobuf and protobuf-codegen crates to version 3.7.2. Initial packaging of the protobuf-parse and protobuf-support crates. This includes fixes for CVE-2025-53605 (Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability in the protobuf crate).
Change Log
* Tue Sep 30 2025 Fabio Valentini
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2376751 - CVE-2025-53605 mirrorlist-server: Protobuf: Uncontrolled Recursion Vulnerability [fedora-42]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376751
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-1ac08db27d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: rust-protobuf-parse
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.7.2
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: Parse .proto files
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