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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-7254: Security patch for protobuf (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 19, 2024
Added
Nov 18, 2024
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobufamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-compileramazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-emacsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-emacs-elamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-javaamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-javadocamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-liteamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-lite-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-lite-staticamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-pythonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-staticamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-protobuf-vim
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