CVE-2024-53984 – Nanopb Protocol Buffers Denial-of-Service Memory Leak

CVE ID : CVE-2024-53984

Published : Dec. 2, 2024, 4:15 p.m. | 1 hour ago

Description : Nanopb is a small code-size Protocol Buffers implementation. When the compile time option PB_ENABLE_MALLOC is enabled, the message contains at least one field with FT_POINTER field type, custom stream callback is used with unknown stream length. and the pb_decode_ex() function is used with flag PB_DECODE_DELIMITED, then the pb_decode_ex() function does not automatically call pb_release(), like is done for other failure cases. This could lead to memory leak and potential denial-of-service. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.4.9.1.

Severity: 4.3 | MEDIUM

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CVE-2024-53984 – Nanopb Protocol Buffers Denial-of-Service Memory Leak