suse-su-2025:20672-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-09-05 12:16
Modified
2025-09-05 12:16
Summary
Security update for protobuf

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for protobuf
Description of the patch
This update for protobuf fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-2410: Use after free when parsing JSON from a stream (bsc#1223947). - CVE-2024-7254: StackOverflow vulnerability in Protocol Buffers (bsc#1230778). - CVE-2025-4565: Parsing of untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups or messages can lead to crash due to RecursionError (bsc#1244663).
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-250
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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