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SUSE SLES16 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:21615-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 315041

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES16 / SLES_SAP16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:21615-1 advisory.

 This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issue

 - CVE-2026-31853: heap buffer overflow leads to crash in the SFW decoder of 32-bit systems when processing extremely large images (bsc#1259528).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259528

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31853

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-May/046433.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 315041

File Name: suse_SU-2026-21615-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2026

Updated: 5/16/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-31853

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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:imagemagick-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-limited, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickcore-7_q16hdri10, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:16, 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, 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: 5/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-31853

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:21615-1