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Fedora 42 Advisory: xmedcon 0.25.3 Critical Update for CVE-2025-2581

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Xmedcon upgrade in Fedora 42 addresses open bugs and critical CVEs for improved security.
upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

Summary

This project stands for Medical Image Conversion and is released under the

GNU's (L)GPL license. It bundles the C source code, a library, a flexible

command-line utility and a graphical front-end based on the amazing Gtk+

toolkit.

Its main purpose is image conversion while preserving valuable medical

study information. The currently supported formats are: Acr/Nema 2.0,

Analyze (SPM), Concorde/uPET, DICOM 3.0, CTI ECAT 6/7, InterFile 3.3

and PNG or Gif87a/89a towards desktop applications.

Update Information:

upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical xmedcon open bugs

Change Log

* Sat Nov 8 2025 Filipe Rosset - 0.25.3-1 - update to 0.25.3 * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.24.1-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.24.1-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2335506 - xmedcon-0.25.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2335506 [ 2 ] Bug #2341576 - xmedcon: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f42 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2341576 [ 3 ] Bug #2354002 - CVE-2025-2581 xmedcon: xmedcon DICOM File malloc integer underflow [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2354002 [ 4 ] Bug #2385742 - xmedcon: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f43 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2385742

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-805b8f571a' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: xmedcon
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 0.25.3
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://xmedcon.sourceforge.io/
Summary: A medical image conversion utility and library

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical xmedcon open bugs

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