SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:1596-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 310237

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-2026:1596-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-33899: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds write in XML parsing (bsc#1262154).
- CVE-2026-33900: Denial of Service via integer truncation in viff encoder (bsc#1262156).
- CVE-2026-33905: Denial of service via out-of-bounds read in -sample operation (bsc#1262097).
- CVE-2026-33908: Denial of Service via deeply nested XML file processing (bsc#1262152).
- CVE-2026-34238: Denial of Service via integer overflow in despeckle operation (bsc#1262147).
- CVE-2026-40311: Denial of Service via heap use-after-free in XMP profile processing (bsc#1262146).

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: 310237

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1596-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2026

Updated: 4/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-33905

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: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: 4/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-33899, CVE-2026-33900, CVE-2026-33905, CVE-2026-33908, CVE-2026-34238, CVE-2026-40311

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1596-1

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