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openSUSE: spdlog Moderate Resource Consumption Issue CVE-2025-6140

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2025
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A resource consumption vulnerability has been found in the spdlog library affecting openSUSE systems. This may lead to performance degradation in applications using spdlog
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for spdlog fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2025-6140: Fixed input manipulation that may lead to resource

consumption (boo#1244696)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update resource consumption OpenSUSE spdlog

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security 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 Backports SLE-15-SP7:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2025-241=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

libspdlog1_11-1.11.0-bp157.2.3.1

spdlog-devel-1.11.0-bp157.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7 (aarch64_ilp32):

libspdlog1_11-64bit-1.11.0-bp157.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6140.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244696

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:0241-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP7 .

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Topics Covered

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