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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2026:2021-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 316859

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-2026:2021-1 advisory.

 This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issues

 - 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-2026-42050: Stack buffer overflow in XTileImage (bsc#1265048).

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259528

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1265048

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2026-May/046634.html

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42050

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 316859

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2021-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2026

Updated: 5/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-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: 5/20/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-31853, CVE-2026-42050

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2021-1