ALAS-2023-1676

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-22570  

A flaw was found in protobuf. The vulnerability occurs due to incorrect parsing of a NULL character in the proto symbol and leads to a Null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands, read memory, modify memory. (CVE-2021-22570)

ALAS-2023-1676


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1676
Advisory Release Date: 2023-01-31 20:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-02-04 18:16 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2021-22570 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in protobuf. The vulnerability occurs due to incorrect parsing of a NULL character in the proto symbol and leads to a Null pointer dereference. This flaw allows an attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands, read memory, modify memory. (CVE-2021-22570)


Affected Packages:

protobuf


Issue Correction:
pkg_manager = 'yum'Run update protobuf to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    protobuf-static-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-lite-devel-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-devel-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-compiler-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-lite-static-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-lite-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-python27-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-vim-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686
    protobuf-python26-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.i686

src:
    protobuf-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    protobuf-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-devel-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-compiler-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-python26-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-python27-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-vim-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-static-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-devel-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-static-2.5.0-1.11.amzn1.x86_64