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CVE-2021-41690
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-06-28T13:15:10.783 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:08:48.917

Summary

DCMTK 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.

Affected products

offis — dcmtk

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References

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