Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5945-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5945-1 - 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. 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.

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