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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8943-1

USN-8943-1: Protocol Buffers vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Oct 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly handle negative varint lengths or enforce recursion limits when parsing input in the PHP library. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using Protocol Buffers to crash or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

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