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Ubuntu: USN-5882-1 (CVE-2021-41687): DCMTK vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5882-1 (CVE-2021-41687): DCMTK vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/28/2022
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

DCMTK through 3.6.6 does not handle memory free properly. The program malloc a heap memory for parsing data, but does not free it when error in parsing. Sending specific requests to the dcmqrdb program incur the memory leak. An attacker can use it to launch a DoS attack.

Solution(s)

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

References

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