CVE-2025-0838 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-0838

Heap Buffer overflow in Abseil

Vulnerability Description

There exists a heap buffer overflow vulnerable in Abseil-cpp. The sized constructors, reserve(), and rehash() methods of absl::{flat,node}hash{set,map} did not impose an upper bound on their size argument. As a result, it was possible for a caller to pass a very large size that would cause an integer overflow when computing the size of the container's backing store, and a subsequent out-of-bounds memory write. Subsequent accesses to the container might also access out-of-bounds memory. We recommend upgrading past commit 5a0e2cb5e3958dd90bb8569a2766622cb74d90c1

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

abseil-cpp
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 21st, 2025
Last Modified: April 5th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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