Vulnerability CVE-2024-24794


Published: 2024-02-20

Description:
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the DICOM Element Parsing as implemented in Imaging Data Commons libdicom 1.0.5. A specially crafted DICOM file can cause premature freeing of memory that is used later. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker would need to induce the vulnerable application to process a malicious DICOM image.The Use-After-Free happens in the `parse_meta_sequence_end()` parsing the Sequence Value Represenations.

Type:

CWE-416

(Use After Free)

 References:
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1931
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-1931

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