DEBIAN-CVE-2021-41689

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-41689
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-41689.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-41689
Upstream
Published
2022-06-28T13:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:27:10.143146Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

DCMTK through 3.6.6 does not handle string copy properly. Sending specific requests to the dcmqrdb program, it would query its database and copy the result even if the result is null, which can incur a head-based overflow. An attacker can use it to launch a DoS attack.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / dcmtk

Package

Name
dcmtk
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dcmtk?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.5-1+deb11u1

Affected versions

3.*

3.6.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / dcmtk

Package

Name
dcmtk
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dcmtk?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / dcmtk

Package

Name
dcmtk
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dcmtk?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / dcmtk

Package

Name
dcmtk
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dcmtk?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}