CVE-2021-41690

NameCVE-2021-41690
DescriptionDCMTK through 3.6.6 does not handle memory free properly. The malloced memory for storing all file information are recorded in a global variable LST and are not freed properly. Sending specific requests to the dcmqrdb program can incur a memory leak. An attacker can use it to launch a DoS attack.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3847-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dcmtk (PTS)bullseye3.6.5-1vulnerable
bookworm3.6.7-9~deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie3.6.8-6fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dcmtksourcebuster3.6.4-2.1+deb10u1DLA-3847-1
dcmtksource(unstable)3.6.7-1

Notes

[bullseye] - dcmtk <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/a9697dfeb672b0b9412c00c7d36d801e27ec85cb (DCMTK-3.6.7)

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