GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-frgf-8jr5-j2jv memory leak flaw was found in ruby-magick

MEDIUM Published 2023-10-30 Modified 2026-06-08 Official page ↗

Aliases: CVE-2023-5349
Ecosystem: RubyGems
Packages: rmagick
Severity: Moderate
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses: CWE-400, CWE-401
Reviewed: 2023-10-31

Affected packages

• RubyGems rmagick: < 5.3.0 → fixed in 5.3.0

Description

A memory leak flaw was found in ruby-magick, an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick. This issue can lead to a denial of service (DOS) by memory exhaustion.

Alias · CVE (1)

CVE-2023-5349 A memory leak flaw was found in ruby-magick, an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5349 advisory
https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues/1401 web
https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406 web
https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/commit/02f37ca0d6c2b8fff316e0668efa690f5c90a429 web
https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/commit/fec7a7e639ae565386f7615155dbcf49b957b64a web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5349 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247064 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-frgf-8jr5-j2jv advisory
https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rmagick/CVE-2023-5349.yml web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00030.html web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00003.html web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S3XMQ2KWPYGT447EKPENGXXHKAQ5NUWF web