SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:1597-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 310242

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1597-1 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-2026-33901: Denial of Service due to heap buffer overflow in MVG decoder (bsc#1262155).
- 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-2026-40169: Denial of Service via crafted image leading to out-of-bounds write (bsc#1262150).
- CVE-2026-40183: Denial of Service via heap write overflow in JXL encoder (bsc#1262145).
- CVE-2026-40310: Denial of service via heap out-of-bounds write in JP2 encoder (bsc#1262148).
- CVE-2026-40311: Denial of Service via heap use-after-free in XMP profile processing (bsc#1262146).
- CVE-2026-40312: Denial of Service via malicious MSL file processing (bsc#1262149).

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: 310242

File Name: suse_SU-2026-1597-1.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-7-upstream-secure, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-7_q16hdri5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickcore-7_q16hdri10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-limited, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-config-7-suse, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-perlmagick, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-open, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-websafe, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickwand-7_q16hdri10

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-2026-33901, CVE-2026-33905, CVE-2026-33908, CVE-2026-34238, CVE-2026-40169, CVE-2026-40183, CVE-2026-40310, CVE-2026-40311, CVE-2026-40312

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:1597-1

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