1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5882-1

USN-5882-1: DCMTK vulnerabilities

Publication date

22 February 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in DCMTK.

Releases

Packages

  • 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 issue to
cause a denial...

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)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic libdcmtk17 –  3.6.7-6ubuntu0.1
dcmtk –  3.6.7-6ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy dcmtk –  3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm1  
libdcmtk16 –  3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm1  
20.04 focal libdcmtk14 –  3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
dcmtk –  3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
18.04 bionic dcmtk –  3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1  
libdcmtk12 –  3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1  
16.04 xenial libdcmtk5 –  3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1  
dcmtk –  3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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