CVE-2021-41687

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.179

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities (USN-7010-1) dcmtk_3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb	Linux
OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities (USN-7010-1) libdcmtk14_3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb	Linux
OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities (USN-7010-2) dcmtk_3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb	Linux
OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities (USN-7010-2) libdcmtk14_3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234