ALAS2-2023-1931

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)

ALAS2-2023-1931


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1931
Advisory Release Date: 2023-02-03 19:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-02-04 18:29 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:
aarch64:
    protobuf-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-compiler-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-devel-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-static-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-devel-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-static-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-python-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-vim-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-emacs-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-emacs-el-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-java-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-javadoc-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-debuginfo-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    protobuf-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-compiler-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-devel-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-static-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-lite-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-lite-devel-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-lite-static-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-python-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-vim-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-emacs-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-emacs-el-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-java-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-javadoc-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    protobuf-debuginfo-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    protobuf-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    protobuf-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-compiler-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-devel-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-static-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-devel-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-static-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-python-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-vim-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-emacs-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-emacs-el-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-java-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-javadoc-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-debuginfo-2.5.0-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64