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openSUSE Leap 15.6 abseil-cpp Moderate Heap Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2026
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An update addresses a moderate severity heap overflow in abseil-cpp, improving system security on openSUSE.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for abseil-cpp fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2025-0838: Fixed heap buffer overflow in sized constructors, reserve(),

and rehash() methods of absl:{flat,node}hash{set,map} (bsc#1237543).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update heap overflow OpenSUSE abseil-cpp

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-338=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2026-338=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-338=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* abseil-cpp-debugsource-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-debuginfo-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* abseil-cpp-devel-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libabsl2401_0_0-32bit-debuginfo-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-32bit-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libabsl2401_0_0-64bit-debuginfo-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-64bit-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* abseil-cpp-debugsource-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-debuginfo-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* abseil-cpp-devel-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (x86_64)

* libabsl2401_0_0-32bit-debuginfo-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

* libabsl2401_0_0-32bit-20240116.3-150600.19.6.1

References

* bsc#1237543

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0838.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237543

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0338-1
Release Date: 2026-01-29T10:35:51Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update heap overflow OpenSUSE abseil-cpp

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