SUSE-SU-2026:1653-1

MEDIUM5.9

Security update for protobuf

Published Apr 29, 2026

Modified 1 months ago

Fix available

Details

Description of the patch:

This update for protobuf fixes the following issues:

Refresh fixes:

CVE-2025-4565: parsing of untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups or messages can lead to crash due to RecursionError (bsc#1244663).
CVE-2026-0994: max_recursion_depth limit can be bypassed when parsing nested google.protobuf.Any messages and lead to the exhaustion of the Python recursion stack (bsc#1257173).

Affected Packages

libprotobuf-lite20

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOSSUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSSSUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOSSUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSSSUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

Fixed in:

3.9.2-150200.4.33.1

libprotobuf20

Fixed in:

3.9.2-150200.4.33.1

libprotoc20

Fixed in:

3.9.2-150200.4.33.1

python3-protobuf

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP4SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7

Fixed in:

3.9.2-150200.4.33.1

References

ADVISORY

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1244663

ADVISORY

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1257173

ADVISORY

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1260019

ADVISORY

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-April/046103.html

ADVISORY