USN-7010-2: DCMTK regression

Publication date

8 July 2025

Overview

USN-7010-1 introduced a regression in DCMTK


Packages

  • dcmtk - OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities

Details

USN-7010-1 fixed vulnerabilities in DCMTK. The update introduced a
regression. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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...

USN-7010-1 fixed vulnerabilities in DCMTK. The update introduced a
regression. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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)


Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 focal dcmtk –  3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.2
libdcmtk14 –  3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.2
18.04 bionic dcmtk –  3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm3  
libdcmtk12 –  3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm3  
16.04 xenial dcmtk –  3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm3  
libdcmtk5 –  3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm3  

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