Source: protobuf Version: 3.21.12-11 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for protobuf. CVE-2025-4565[0]: | Any project that uses Protobuf Pure-Python backend to parse | untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of | recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can | be corrupted by exceeding the Python recursion limit. This can | result in a Denial of service by crashing the application with a | RecursionError. We recommend upgrading to version =>6.31.1 or beyond | commit 17838beda2943d08b8a9d4df5b68f5f04f26d901 If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-4565 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4565 [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/17838beda2943d08b8a9d4df5b68f5f04f26d901 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore

