USN-7010-1: DCMTK vulnerabilities

17 September 2024

Several security issues were fixed in DCMTK.

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Releases

Packages

  • dcmtk - OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities

Details

Jinsheng Ba discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain requests. If
a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially
crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2021-41687, CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689, CVE-2021-41690)

Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled
pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a
certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2121)

It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially
crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-43272)

It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially
crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-28130)

It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled memory when processing an
invalid incoming DIMSE message. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34508, CVE-2024-34509)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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