SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : GraphicsMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:0938-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 303293

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0938-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-28691: missing check in the JBIG decoder can lead to an uninitialized pointer dereference (bsc#1259455).
- CVE-2026-30883: missing bounds check when encoding a PNG image can lead to a heap buffer over-write (bsc#1259467).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 303293

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0938-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/22/2026

Updated: 3/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-30883

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgraphicsmagickwand-q16-2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgraphicsmagick%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgraphicsmagick%2b%2b-q16-12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-graphicsmagick, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgraphicsmagick3-config, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgraphicsmagick-q16-3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:graphicsmagick, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:graphicsmagick-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: 3/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-28691, CVE-2026-30883

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0938-1

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