ALAS2023-2023-009


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-009
Advisory Release Date: 2023-02-17 20:42 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-02-23 00:00 Pacific
Severity: Medium

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:
Run dnf update protobuf --releasever=2023.0.20230222 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    protobuf-debuginfo-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-static-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-debuginfo-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-devel-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-compiler-debuginfo-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-devel-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-static-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-compiler-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-debugsource-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64
    protobuf-lite-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64

noarch:
    protobuf-emacs-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.noarch
    protobuf-vim-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.noarch
    python3-protobuf-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.noarch

src:
    protobuf-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.src

x86_64:
    protobuf-debuginfo-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-debuginfo-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-static-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-static-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-compiler-debuginfo-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-devel-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-lite-devel-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-compiler-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64
    protobuf-debugsource-3.14.0-7.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64