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.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-4433 advisory.

    - -----------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4433-1              debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                      Utkarsh Gupta     January 05, 2026                            https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : ruby-rmagick     Version        : 2.16.0-7+deb11u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-5349

    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.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version     2.16.0-7+deb11u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-rmagick packages.

    For the detailed security status of ruby-rmagick please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-rmagick

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-5349)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2023-5349)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6960-1 advisory.

    Nick Browning discovered that RMagick incorrectly handled memory under

    certain operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause

    a denial of service through memory exhaustion.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-8dd1a1a2e6 advisory.

    A security flaw was found on rubygem-rmagick that Magick::Draw causes memleak. This issue is assigned as     CVE-2023-5349. This new rpm fixes this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3625 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3625-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                   Bastien Roucaris     October 22, 2023                              https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : ruby-rmagick     Version        : 2.16.0-6+deb10u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2023-5349

    A memory leak was found in ruby-magick an interface between     Ruby and ImageMagick, that could lead to a Deny of Service     (DOS) by memory exhaustion.

    For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version     2.16.0-6+deb10u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-rmagick packages.

    For the detailed security status of ruby-rmagick please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ruby-rmagick

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
281763	Debian dla-4433 : ruby-rmagick - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	low
226989	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5349	Nessus	Misc.	low
414676	SCA: security update for rmagick (GHSA-frgf-8jr5-j2jv)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	low
414676	SCA: security update for rmagick (GHSA-frgf-8jr5-j2jv)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	low
205549	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : RMagick vulnerability (USN-6960-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	low
185397	Fedora 37 : rubygem-rmagick (2023-8dd1a1a2e6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
183678	Debian dla-3625 : ruby-rmagick - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	low

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