CVE-2024-7254

Publication date 19 September 2024

Last updated 9 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
protobuf 25.04 plucky
Fixed 3.21.12-10ubuntu0.1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.21.12-9ubuntu1.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.21.12-8.2ubuntu0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.12.4-1ubuntu7.22.04.2
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

Notes

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
protobuf

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7435-1
    • Protocol Buffers vulnerability
    • 14 April 2025
    • USN-7629-1
    • Protocol Buffers vulnerabilities
    • 9 July 2025
    • USN-7629-2
    • Protocol Buffers vulnerabilities
    • 2 September 2025

Other references