Vulnerability CVE-2021-41689


Published: 2022-06-28

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-476

(NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Offis -> Dcmtk 

 References:
https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk
https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/5c14bf53fb42ceca12bbcc0016e8704b1580920d

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