SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:1201-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 305289

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1201-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-24484: denial of service vulnerability via multi-layer nested MVG to SVG conversion (bsc#1258790).
- CVE-2026-28494: missing bounds checks in the morphology kernel parsing functions can lead to a stack buffer overflow (bsc#1259447).
- CVE-2026-28686: undersized output buffer allocation in the PCL encoder can lead to a heap buffer overflow (bsc#1259448).
- CVE-2026-28687: heap use-after-free vulnerability in the MSL decoder via a crafted MSL file (bsc#1259450).
- CVE-2026-28688: heap use-after-free in the MSL encoder when a cloned image is destroyed twice (bsc#1259451).
- CVE-2026-28689: `domain='path'` authorization is checked before final file open/use and allows for read/write bypass via symlink swaps (bsc#1259452).
- CVE-2026-28690: missing bounds check in the MNG encoder can lead to a stack buffer overflow (bsc#1259456).
- CVE-2026-28691: missing check in the JBIG decoder can lead to an uninitialized pointer dereference (bsc#1259455).
- CVE-2026-28692: 32-bit integer overflow in MAT decoder can lead to a heap buffer over-read (bsc#1259457).
- CVE-2026-28693: integer overflow in the DIB coder can lead to an out-of-bounds read or write (bsc#1259466).
- CVE-2026-30883: missing bounds check when encoding a PNG image can lead to a heap buffer over-write (bsc#1259467).
- CVE-2026-30937: Heap buffer overflow in XWD encoder due to CARD32 arithmetic overflow (bsc#1259463).
- CVE-2026-31853: heap buffer overflow leads to crash in the SFW decoder of 32-bit systems when processing extremely large images (bsc#1259528).
- CVE-2026-33535: Out-of-Bounds write of a zero byte in X11 display interaction (bsc#1260874).
- CVE-2026-33536: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds write (bsc#1260879).

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: 305289

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1201-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/8/2026

Updated: 4/8/2026

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: 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:imagemagick-config-6-upstream, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickcore-6_q16-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickwand-6_q16-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-config-6-suse

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: 4/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-24484, CVE-2026-28494, CVE-2026-28686, CVE-2026-28687, CVE-2026-28688, CVE-2026-28689, CVE-2026-28690, CVE-2026-28691, CVE-2026-28692, CVE-2026-28693, CVE-2026-30883, CVE-2026-30937, CVE-2026-31853, CVE-2026-33535, CVE-2026-33536

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1201-1

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