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SUSE ImageMagick Important Buffer Overflows CVE-2026-31853 CVE-2026-42050

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Two vulnerabilities in ImageMagick are addressed by this important SUSE update. Patching is recommended to mitigate risks.
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: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2026-2021=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-2021=1 ## Package List: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow SuSE important heap overflow imagemagick

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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2021-1
Release Date: 2026-05-20T07:14:29Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow SuSE important heap overflow imagemagick

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