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Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package protobuf  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PROTOBUF-580451
  • published25 Sept 2017
  • disclosed25 Sept 2017
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2017

CVE-2015-5237  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream protobuf package and not the protobuf package as distributed by Ubuntu.

protobuf allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

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