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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Protocol Buffers vulnerabilities (USN-5945-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172495

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5945-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly validate field com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet in protobuf-java. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected protobuf Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.
 (CVE-2021-22569)

 It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly parse certain symbols. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2021-22570)

 It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly manage memory when parsing specifically crafted messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using protobuf to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-1941)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5945-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172495

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5945-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-22569

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1941

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:protobuf-compiler, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-protobuf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-protobuf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf23, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-lite23, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ruby-google-protobuf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-java, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:elpa-protobuf-mode, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc17, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-lite8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf17, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-lite17, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotobuf-lite10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libprotoc23, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-22569, CVE-2021-22570, CVE-2022-1941

USN: 5945-1