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SUSE: Protobuf Moderate Crash Risk Fix CVE-2025-4565 2025:02309-1

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
The new protobuf patch addresses a significant parsing issue that could result in serious system failures when handling unvalidated input.
* bsc#1244663 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-4565

Summary

## This update for protobuf fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-4565: Fix parsing of untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups or messages that can lead to crash due to RecursionError (bsc#1244663). ## 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 15.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2309=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2309=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-2309=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-2309=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security issue SuSE protobuf

References

* bsc#1244663

Cross-

* CVE-2025-4565

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-4565 ( SUSE ): 8.2

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-4565 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2025-4565 ( NVD ): 8.2

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

* Public Cloud Module 15-SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02309-1
Release Date: 2025-07-15T09:15:02Z
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service security issue SuSE protobuf

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