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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : abseil-cpp (SUSE-SU-2026:0338-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 297416

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0338-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-0838: Fixed heap buffer overflow in sized constructors, reserve(), and rehash() methods of absl:{flat,node}hash{set,map} (bsc#1237543).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected abseil-cpp-devel, libabsl2401_0_0 and / or libabsl2401_0_0-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237543

http://www.nessus.org/u?a50c014b

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 297416

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0338-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2026

Updated: 1/31/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-0838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libabsl2401_0_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:abseil-cpp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libabsl2401_0_0-32bit

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0838

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0338-1