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.

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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

Version 1.3