Thanks for this - could you please also add the same to the protobuf
recipe in a separate patch?
(This and the protobuf recipe share the same CVE_PRODUCT, and once a CVE
is fixed in one recipe, the other recipe will show up in the weekly report)

On 3/30/26 08:51, Naman Jain via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Naman Jain <[email protected]>
> 
> CVE-2024-7254 is a stack overflow vulnerability caused by unbounded
> recursion, specifically within the Java Protobuf Lite and Full runtimes
> (including Kotlin and JRuby bindings).
> 
> The python3-protobuf recipe builds the Python implementation using the
> C++ backend (--cpp_implementation). This implementation does not
> contain the vulnerable Java-specific parsing logic (such as
> DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or ArrayDecoders).
> 
> Authoritative security sources, including Red Hat and GitHub Advisory
> have confirmed that non-Java implementations
> (Python/C++) are not affected by this specific flaw.
> 
> Reference: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-7254
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naman Jain <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-protobuf_3.20.3.bb | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-protobuf_3.20.3.bb 
> b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-protobuf_3.20.3.bb
> index dbb30ad4df..52fea2ae6e 100644
> --- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-protobuf_3.20.3.bb
> +++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-protobuf_3.20.3.bb
> @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
> "2e3427429c9cffebf259491be0af70189607f365c2f41c7c3764af6f33
>  
>  CVE_PRODUCT += "google:protobuf protobuf:protobuf google-protobuf 
> protobuf-python"
>  
> +# CVE-2024-7254 is Java/ruby/kotlin specific and does not affect the 
> Python/C++ implementation.
> +CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "CVE-2024-7254"
> +
>  # http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/184715/
>  # Can't find required file: ../src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto
>  CLEANBROKEN = "1"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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