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openSUSE GraphicsMagick Low Memory Leak Advisory 2026-3201-1

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2026
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This update addresses a low-impact memory leak issue found in GraphicsMagick for openSUSE, ensuring improved security.
A security update for GraphicsMagick addresses a memory leak vulnerability (CVE-2026-61870) affecting several SUSE products, allowing users to install necessary patches.

Description

This update for GraphicsMagick fixes the following issue

* CVE-2026-61870: Memory leak in VIFF encoder when allocation fails

(bsc#1271293).

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Topics Covered

security advisory threat memory leak low OpenSUSE graphicsmagick

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2026-3201=1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-3201=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libGraphicsMagickWand-Q16-2-debuginfo-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick-Q16-3-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick3-config-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* GraphicsMagick-debugsource-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick++-Q16-12-debuginfo-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* GraphicsMagick-debuginfo-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagickWand-Q16-2-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* perl-GraphicsMagick-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick++-Q16-12-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* GraphicsMagick-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* GraphicsMagick-devel-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick-Q16-3-debuginfo-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick++-devel-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* perl-GraphicsMagick-debuginfo-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libGraphicsMagickWand-Q16-2-debuginfo-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick-Q16-3-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

* libGraphicsMagick3-config-1.3.42-150600.3.36.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1271293

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-61870.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271293

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:3201-1
Release Date: 2026-07-22T18:53:49Z

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Topics Covered

security advisory threat memory leak low OpenSUSE graphicsmagick

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