INFSA-2025:7138: protobuf security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:7138

Type: security

Release date: 2025-06-10 08:39:55 UTC

Information about package

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.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2022-1941

    A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers 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.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
NIST — CVE-2022-1941
no information 6.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages