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openSUSE 16.0 mapserver Moderate Buffer Overflow Fix 20476-1

opensuse
Calendar Grey April 9, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security update for openSUSE addresses moderate issues in mapserver, including a heap buffer overflow. Learn more.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for mapserver fixes the following issues:

Changes in mapserver:

- Update to release 8.6.1

* msSLDParseRasterSymbolizer: fix potential heap buffer overflow

[boo#1260869] [CVE-2026-33721]

* GetFeatureInfo with IDENTIFY CLASSAUTO: take into account

SYMBOL.ANCHORPOINT

* WCS 2.0: fix issue when input raster in a rotated pole lon/lat

CRS with lon_0> 180

* UVRaster: fix WMS-Time support on layers with TILEINDEX

pointing to a shapefile

* WMS GetCapabilities response: use group title and abstract when

using wms_layer_group instead of GROUP

- Update to release 8.6.0

* Add `CONNECTIONTYPE RASTERLABEL`

* Set `MS_LEGEND_KEYSIZE_MAX` to 1000

* Add 4 new `COMPOSITE.COMPOP` blending operations

* Allow encryption key files to use paths relative to a mapfile

* Allow `use_default_extent_for_getfeature` to be used for OGC

Features API and PostGIS

* Allow append of additional query parameters for OGCAPI

* New MapServer index page

* WMS...

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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

libjavamapscript-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

libmapserver2-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

mapserver-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

mapserver-devel-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

perl-mapscript-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

php-mapscriptng-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

python313-mapserver-8.6.1-bp160.1.1

References

* bsc#1260869

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33721.html

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20476-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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