CVE-2021-41687

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-41687
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-06-28 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-06 19:44:00 UTC
DescriptionDCMTK 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-401

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Offis Dcmtk All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitHub - DCMTK/dcmtk: Official DCMTK Github Mirror MISC github.com
Fixed poss. NULL pointer dereference/double free. · DCMTK/dcmtk@a9697df · GitHub MISC github.com
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181962 Debian Security Update for dcmtk (CVE-2021-41687)
  • 199499 Ubuntu Security Notification for DCMTK Vulnerabilities (USN-5882-1)
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