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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-24786: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON

Name: Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-24786: golang-protobuf: encoding/protojson, internal/encoding/json: infinite loop in protojson.Unmarshal when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat OpenShift, 2024, 24786, golang, linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-o, linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-tools, linuxrpm-upgrade-microshift, linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift, linuxrpm-upgrade-ose-azure-acr-image-credential-provider, linuxrpm-upgrade-ose-gcp-gcr-image-credential-provider, linuxrpm-upgrade-podman, Severity 8

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

Mar 5, 2024

Added

Mar 28, 2024

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The protojson.Unmarshal function can enter an infinite loop when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. This condition can occur when unmarshaling into a message which contains a google.protobuf.Any value, or when the UnmarshalOptions.DiscardUnknown option is set.

Solutions

linuxrpm-upgrade-cri-olinuxrpm-upgrade-cri-toolslinuxrpm-upgrade-microshiftlinuxrpm-upgrade-openshiftlinuxrpm-upgrade-ose-azure-acr-image-credential-providerlinuxrpm-upgrade-ose-gcp-gcr-image-credential-providerlinuxrpm-upgrade-podman

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