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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022:7464 Moderate Protobuf Nullptr Issue

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ensure your Red Hat systems are safeguarded with the newest protobuf enhancement resolving a medium severity concern. Discover the steps to implement it.
An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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):
* protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update moderate impact data serialization protobuf

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22570 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm protobuf-compiler-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm protobuf-compiler-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm protobuf-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm protobuf-debugsource-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm protobuf-lite-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm protobuf-lite-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: python3-protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm protobuf-compiler-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm protobuf-compiler-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm protobuf-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm protobuf-debugsource-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm protobuf-lite-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm protobuf-lite-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm protobuf-compiler-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm protobuf-compiler-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm protobuf-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm protobuf-debugsource-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm protobuf-lite-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm protobuf-lite-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.i686.rpm protobuf-3.5.0-15.el8.x86_64.rpm protobuf-compiler-3.5.0-15.el8.i686.rpm protobuf-compiler-3.5.0-15.el8.x86_64.rpm protobuf-compiler-debuginfo-3.5.0-15.el8.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7464-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7464
Issue date: 2022-11-08

Topic

An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat software update moderate impact data serialization protobuf

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2049429 - CVE-2021-22570 protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference

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