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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
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
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

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 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...

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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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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7010-1

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security advisory software update remote attack ubuntu security issues dos dcmtk

Package Information

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

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