{"id":"RLSA-2022:7970","summary":"Moderate: protobuf security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference (CVE-2021-22570)\n\nFor 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.\n\nAdditional Changes:\n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.","modified":"2026-03-11T06:04:22.387248Z","published":"2022-11-15T06:12:20Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-22570"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2022:7970"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049429"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"protobuf","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/protobuf?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:3.14.0-13.el9"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2022:7970.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}