vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6121-1 (CVE-2021-21401): Nanopb vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2021
Added
May 31, 2023
Modified
Nov 15, 2024

Description

Nanopb is a small code-size Protocol Buffers implementation in ansi C. In Nanopb before versions 0.3.9.8 and 0.4.5, decoding a specifically formed message can cause invalid `free()` or `realloc()` calls if the message type contains an `oneof` field, and the `oneof` directly contains both a pointer field and a non-pointer field. If the message data first contains the non-pointer field and then the pointer field, the data of the non-pointer field is incorrectly treated as if it was a pointer value. Such message data rarely occurs in normal messages, but it is a concern when untrusted data is parsed. This has been fixed in versions 0.3.9.8 and 0.4.5. See referenced GitHub Security Advisory for more information including workarounds.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-nanopb
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