protobufjs has overlong UTF-8 decoding

Description

protobufjs includes a minimal UTF-8 decoder used in non-Node and fallback decoding paths. The affected decoder accepted overlong UTF-8 byte sequences and decoded them to their canonical characters instead of replacing them.

The issue concerns overlong encodings and code points outside the Unicode range.

Recommendation

Update the protobufjs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.1

  <= 7.5.5**

• Patched version(s): **8.0.2

  7.5.6**

References

• GHSA-q6x5-8v7m-xcrf
• CVE-2026-44288
• CWE-176
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6