CVE-2019-1010228

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

OFFIS.de DCMTK 3.6.3 and below is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: Possible code execution and confirmed Denial of Service. The component is: DcmRLEDecoder::decompress() (file dcrledec.h, line 122). The attack vector is: Many scenarios of DICOM file processing (e.g. DICOM to image conversion). The fixed version is: 3.6.4, after commit 40917614e.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
OFFIS DCMTK: through 3.6.3

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NQOAULR72EYJQ4HS6YGLK2S6YNEXY2ET/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PBKP2O24CTYIANEJTP4TVEPYEVSYV2RX/
https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/858
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NQOAULR72EYJQ4HS6YGLK2S6YNEXY2ET/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PBKP2O24CTYIANEJTP4TVEPYEVSYV2RX/
https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/858

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