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openSUSE 16.0 openbabel Critical Update Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-21190-1

opensuse
Calendar Grey July 2, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important update addresses critical vulnerabilities in openbabel, enhancing security for openSUSE users. Learn more!
An update that solves 23 vulnerabilities and has 4 bug fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for openbabel fixes the following issues:

Changes in openbabel:

- Update to version 3.2.0:

* Add an L-BFGS optimizer, used by default for gen3d and

conformer searches

* New macrocycle ring builder (Dale codes) for better initial

3D geometry of large rings

* Add KET (Ketcher JSON) and ChemicalJSON (.cjson) format

support

* Drop Python 2 support; Python 3.13 supported

* Faster, vectorized distance-geometry implementation

* Full CMake 4 compatibility and modernized build

* Backwards compatible with 3.0 and 3.1

* Fix many crash and memory-safety bugs found via OSS-Fuzz

and TALOS, including the following security issues:

CVE-2022-37331 (boo#1217676), CVE-2022-41793, CVE-2022-42885,

CVE-2022-43467, CVE-2022-43607, CVE-2022-44451,

CVE-2022-46280, CVE-2022-46289, CVE-2022-46290,

CVE-2022-46291, CVE-2022-46292, CVE-2022-46294,

CVE-2022-46295, CVE-2025-10994, CVE-2025-10995,

CVE-2025-10996, CVE-2025-10997, CVE-2025-10998,

...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow critical OpenSUSE openbabel

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libopenbabel8-3.2.0-bp160.1.1

openbabel-3.2.0-bp160.1.1

openbabel-devel-3.2.0-bp160.1.1

openbabel-gui-3.2.0-bp160.1.1

python3-openbabel-3.2.0-bp160.1.1

References

* bsc#1217676

* bsc#1258501

* bsc#1258507

* bsc#1259041

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-37331.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41793.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42885.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43467.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-43607.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-44451.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46280.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46289.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46290.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46291.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46292.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46294.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46295.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10994.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10995.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10996.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10997.html

*...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21190-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow critical OpenSUSE openbabel

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