OFFIS.de DCMTK 3.6.3 and below is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: Possible code execution and confirmed Denial of Service. The component is: DcmRLEDecoder::decompress() (file dcrledec.h, line 122). The attack vector is: Many scenarios of DICOM file processing (e.g. DICOM to image conversion). The fixed version is: 3.6.4, after commit 40917614e.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5882-1 advisory.

    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 issue to

    cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,

    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41687, CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689,     and CVE-2021-41690)

    Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe 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 remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected

    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2119 and     CVE-2022-2120)

    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 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu     18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 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 remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to

    cause a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,

    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-43272)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Security fix for CVE-2019-1010228

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
171810	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : DCMTK vulnerabilities (USN-5882-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
129395	Fedora 29 : dcmtk (2019-4349fc0afb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
129394	Fedora 30 : dcmtk (2019-12650a34d8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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