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openSUSE ImageMagick Important Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-2020-1

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Critical update for ImageMagick fixes heap and stack buffer overflows for openSUSE and SUSE Linux applications.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Summary

## 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). ## 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: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-2020=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP4-LTSS-2026-2020=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP5-ESPOS-2026-2020=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important heap overflow imagemagick OpenSUSE

References

* bsc#1259528

* bsc#1265048

Cross-

* CVE-2026-31853

* CVE-2026-42050

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2026-31853 ( SUSE ): 8.3

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

* CVE-2026-31853 ( SUSE ): 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2026-31853 ( NVD ): 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

* CVE-2026-31853 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-42050 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

* CVE-2026-42050 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2020-1
Release Date: 2026-05-20T07:14:12Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

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