openSUSE 16: ImageMagick / ImageMagick-config-7-SUSE / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21911-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 350146

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21911-1 advisory.

- CVE-2026-86420: Denial of Service due to memory budget exhaustion (bsc#1279696).
- CVE-2026-86421: Denial of Service via memory leak in MSL decoder (bsc#1279711).
- CVE-2026-86423: Denial of service via heap-use-after-free in PerlMagick's GetList method (bsc#1279794).
- CVE-2026-86425: Denial of Service due to heap-use-after-free vulnerability (bsc#1279797).

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/1279696

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1279711

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1279794

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1279797

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86420

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86421

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86423

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86425

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 350146

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21911-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2026

Updated: 9/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.63

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-86421

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-config-7-suse, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-limited, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-open, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-secure, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-config-7-upstream-websafe, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick-extra, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmagick%2b%2b-7_q16hdri5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmagick%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmagickcore-7_q16hdri10, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libmagickwand-7_q16hdri10, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-perlmagick

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: 9/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-86420, CVE-2026-86421, CVE-2026-86423, CVE-2026-86425