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Ubuntu: USN-5882-1 (CVE-2019-1010228): DCMTK vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5882-1 (CVE-2019-1010228): DCMTK vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/22/2019
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

OFFIS.de DCMTK 3.6.3 and below is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: Possible code execution and confirmed Denial of Service. The component is: DcmRLEDecoder::decompress() (file dcrledec.h, line 122). The attack vector is: Many scenarios of DICOM file processing (e.g. DICOM to image conversion). The fixed version is: 3.6.4, after commit 40917614e.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dcmtk
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdcmtk12
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdcmtk14
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdcmtk16
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdcmtk17
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdcmtk5

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