Description
There is a potentially exploitable out of memory condition In Nanopb before 0.4.1, 0.3.9.5, and 0.2.9.4. When nanopb is compiled with PB_ENABLE_MALLOC, the message to be decoded contains a repeated string, bytes or message field and realloc() runs out of memory when expanding the array nanopb can end up calling `free()` on a pointer value that comes from uninitialized memory. Depending on platform this can result in a crash or further memory corruption, which may be exploitable in some cases. This problem is fixed in nanopb-0.4.1, nanopb-0.3.9.5, nanopb-0.2.9.4.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/nanopb/nanopb/security/advisories/GHSA-gcx3-7m76-287p
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/nanopb/nanopb/commit/45582f1f97f49e2abfdba1463d1e1027682d9856
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/nanopb/nanopb/commit/7b396821ddd06df8e39143f16e1dc0a4645b89a3
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/nanopb/nanopb/commit/aa9d0d1ca78d6adec3adfeecf3a706c7f9df81f2
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0056
EPSS Percentile
68.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (1)
nanopb_project/nanopb
< 0.2.9.4
Published
Feb 04, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026