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ALSA-2022:7464 Not scored

Moderate: protobuf security update

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. Security Fix(es): * protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570) For 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published November 8, 2022
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 protobuf
AlmaLinux:8 protobuf-compiler
AlmaLinux:8 protobuf-devel
AlmaLinux:8 protobuf-lite
AlmaLinux:8 protobuf-lite-devel
AlmaLinux:8 python3-protobuf

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2022:7464

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. Security Fix(es): * protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570) For 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence