RHSA-2022:8860 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1.9 (Train) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.2.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Security Fix(es):

• Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr

dereference (CVE-2021-22570)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 16.1 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 16.1 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools 16.1 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools for IBM Power LE 16.1 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2049429 - CVE-2021-22570 protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr dereference

CVEs

• CVE-2021-22570

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate