Description
A vulnerability was detected in OFFIS DCMTK up to 3.6.9. Affected by this issue is the function DcmByteString::makeDicomByteString of the file dcmdata/libsrc/dcbytstr.cc of the component dcmdata. The manipulation results in memory corruption. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 3.7.0 can resolve this issue. The patch is identified as 4c0e5c10079392c594d6a7abd95dd78ac0aa556a. You should upgrade the affected component.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
OFFIS DCMTK
3.6.0affected3.6.1affected3.6.2affected3.6.3affected3.6.4affected3.6.5affected3.6.6affected3.6.7affected3.6.8affected3.6.9affected3.7.0unaffected
References
- https://vuldb.com/?id.336283 ↗
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.336283 ↗
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.705036 ↗
- https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1184 ↗
- https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/projects/dcmtk/activity?from=2025-12-02 ↗
- https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/4c0e5c10079392c594d6a7abd95dd78ac0aa556a ↗
- https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/versions/19 ↗