SUSE SLES12 Security Update : abseil-cpp (SUSE-SU-2026:0412-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 298600

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2026:0412-1 advisory.

Update to 20240116.3

- CVE-2025-0838: Fixed potential integer overflow in hash container create/resize (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 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237543

http://www.nessus.org/u?7eb257fa

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 298600

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0412-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2026

Updated: 2/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:abseil-cpp-devel

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: 2/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0838

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0412-1