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openSUSE Leap 16.0 ImageMagick Important Buffer Overflow CVE-2026-31853

opensuse
Calendar Grey May 19, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Address a critical ImageMagick buffer overflow issue in openSUSE Leap 16.0 through this important security advisory.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

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).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-740=1

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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

ImageMagick-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-config-7-SUSE-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-limited-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-open-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-secure-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-config-7-upstream-websafe-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-devel-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-doc-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

ImageMagick-extra-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

libMagick++-7_Q16HDRI5-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

libMagick++-devel-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

libMagickCore-7_Q16HDRI10-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

libMagickWand-7_Q16HDRI10-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

perl-PerlMagick-7.1.2.0-160000.9.1

References

* bsc#1259528

References:

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

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20747-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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