{"id":"ALSA-2022:7970","summary":"Moderate: protobuf security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570)\n\nFor 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.\n\nAdditional Changes:\n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.","modified":"2026-02-04T03:46:26.499530Z","published":"2022-11-15T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2021-22570"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7970"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22570"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2049429"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-7970.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"protobuf","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/protobuf"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.0-13.el9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:7970.json"}},{"package":{"name":"protobuf-compiler","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/protobuf-compiler"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.0-13.el9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:7970.json"}},{"package":{"name":"protobuf-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/protobuf-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.0-13.el9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:7970.json"}},{"package":{"name":"protobuf-lite","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/protobuf-lite"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.0-13.el9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:7970.json"}},{"package":{"name":"protobuf-lite-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/protobuf-lite-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.0-13.el9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:7970.json"}},{"package":{"name":"python3-protobuf","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-protobuf"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.0-13.el9"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2022:7970.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}