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GLSA-202408-33 : protobuf-c: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205521

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202408-33 (protobuf-c: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in protobuf-c.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All protobuf-c users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/protobuf-c-1.4.1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202408-33

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856043

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904423

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205521

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202408-33.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/14/2024

Updated: 8/14/2024

Supported Sensors: 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-2022-33070

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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-2022-48468

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:protobuf-c

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-33070, CVE-2022-48468