SUSE SLES15 Security Update : GraphicsMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:1300-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 306321

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1300-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-26284: heap overflow in pcd decoder leads to out of bounds read (bsc#1258765).
- CVE-2026-28690: missing bounds check in the MNG encoder can lead to a stack buffer overflow (bsc#1259456).

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: Critical

ID: 306321

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1300-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/14/2026

Updated: 4/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-26284

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-26284, CVE-2026-28690

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1300-1

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