CVE-2020-26243CWE-119CWE-20

Memory leak in nanopb

High · published November 25, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
3%
Percentile
85.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Nanopb is a small code-size Protocol Buffers implementation. In Nanopb before versions 0.4.4 and 0.3.9.7, decoding specifically formed message can leak memory if dynamic allocation is enabled and an oneof field contains a static submessage that contains a dynamic field, and the message being decoded contains the submessage multiple times. This is rare in normal messages, but it is a concern when untrusted data is parsed. This is fixed in versions 0.3.9.7 and 0.4.4. The following workarounds are available: 1) Set the option `no_unions` for the oneof field. This will generate fields as separate instead of C union, and avoids triggering the problematic code. 2) Set the type of the submessage field inside oneof to `FT_POINTER`. This way the whole submessage will be dynamically allocated and the problematic code is not executed. 3) Use an arena allocator for nanopb, to make sure all memory can be released afterwards.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02664 · 85.6th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer; CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2020-11-25T16:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 NOV 16:50Z
    Memory leak in nanopb
    cvelistv5