CVE-2024-53984

MEDIUM

Nanopb - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 28.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Classification

CWE
CWE-755 CWE-401
Status draft

Timeline

Published Dec 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026