SB2026042986 - SUSE update for protobuf

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SB2026042986 - SUSE update for protobuf

Published: April 29, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026042986
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.


1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4565)

CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

the vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when parsing untrusted data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags. A remote attacker send specially crafted input to the application and can perform a denial of service attack. 


2) Uncontrolled recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-0994)

CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in within the google.protobuf.json_format.ParseDict(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service attack. 


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References