An update for protobuf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The protobuf packages provide Protocol Buffers, Google's data interchange
 format. Protocol Buffers can encode structured data in an efficient yet extensible format, and provide a flexible, efficient, and automated mechanism for serializing structured data.

Security Fix(es):

* protobuf: Incorrect parsing of nullchar in the proto symbol leads to Nullptr
 dereference (CVE-2021-22570)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
 score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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CVE-2021-22570: NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)