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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: USN-7010-1 Critical: DCMTK Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2024
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On September 20, 2024, Debian addressed severe vulnerabilities in OpenSSH that impacted secure connections. Ensure updates for safety.
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:

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...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   dcmtk                           3.6.7-9.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libdcmtk17t64                   3.6.7-9.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   dcmtk                           3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libdcmtk16                      3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
   dcmtk                           3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1
   libdcmtk14                      3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
   dcmtk                           3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libdcmtk12                      3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
   dcmtk                           3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libdcmtk5                       3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7010-1

CVE-2021-41687, CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689, CVE-2021-41690,

CVE-2022-2121, CVE-2022-43272, CVE-2024-28130, CVE-2024-34508,

CVE-2024-34509

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dcmtk/3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1

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