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Ubuntu 22.10, 22.04 LTS: USN-5882-1 Critical: DCMTK Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
An enhanced DCMTK version addresses numerous vulnerabilities impacting several Ubuntu versions. Discover additional details regarding the risks and the patch updates.
Several security issues were fixed in DCMTK.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in DCMTK.

Software Description:

- dcmtk: OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities

Details:

Gjoko Krstic discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. 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 16.04 LTS.

(CVE-2015-8979)

Omar Ganiev discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. 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 16.04 LTS and

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-1010228)

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 issu...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow software update Ubuntu threat mitigation DCMTK

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
   dcmtk                           3.6.7-6ubuntu0.1
   libdcmtk17                      3.6.7-6ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   dcmtk                           3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
   libdcmtk16                      3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   dcmtk                           3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
   libdcmtk14                      3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   dcmtk                           3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
   libdcmtk12                      3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   dcmtk                           3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
   libdcmtk5                       3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5882-1

  CVE-2015-8979, CVE-2019-1010228, CVE-2021-41687, CVE-2021-41688,

  CVE-2021-41689, CVE-2021-41690, CVE-2022-2119, CVE-2022-2120,

  CVE-2022-2121, CVE-2022-43272

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February 22, 2023

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security advisory denial of service buffer overflow software update Ubuntu threat mitigation DCMTK

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dcmtk/3.6.7-6ubuntu0.1

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