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Debian Jessie DSA-3749-1 Critical: DoS Risk in Dcmtk Libraries

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2016
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Update the dcmtk package in Ubuntu to address severe denial of service vulnerabilities and possible code execution threats discovered by Zero Science Labs.
Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Labs discovered that dcmtk, a collection of libraries implementing the DICOM standard, did not properly handle the size of data received the network
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.6.0-15+deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this
problem has been fixed in version 3.6.1~20160216-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your dcmtk packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: dcmtk
CVE ID: CVE-2015-8979

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