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The protobuf tag on WindowsForum.com covers security vulnerabilities and patches related to Google's Protocol Buffers (protobuf) serialization format. Discussions include CVE-2025-53605, a denial-of-service flaw in the Rust protobuf crate caused by uncontrolled recursion in CodedInputStream::skip_group, fixed in version 3.7.2. Another topic is CVE-2022-3509, a DoS vulnerability in the Java protobuf implementation triggered by crafted text-format messages leading to excessive garbage collection pauses. These threads emphasize the importance of upgrading protobuf libraries to patched versions and hardening systems that parse untrusted protobuf data.
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    Rust Protobuf CVE-2025-53605 Patch: Upgrade to 3.7.2 to Stop DoS Recursion

    The Rust ecosystem’s widely used protobuf crate contains a denial‑of‑service flaw: CVE‑2025‑53605 affects versions before 3.7.2 and permits uncontrolled recursion in protobuf::coded_input_stream::CodedInputStream::skip_group when processing unknown fields from untrusted input. The maintainers...
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    • cve 2025 53605 protobuf rust security practices
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    CVE-2022-3509 Protobuf TextFormat DoS in Java: Patch and Harden

    CVE-2022-3509 is a parsing bug in Google’s Protocol Buffers Java implementation that can be triggered by crafted text‑format messages to force excessive object churn and long JVM garbage‑collection pauses, producing a denial‑of‑service (DoS) condition in vulnerable applications; operators should...
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    • denial of service java security protobuf textformat parsing
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