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CVE-2021-41687

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-06-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

Description

DCMTK through 3.6.6 does not handle memory free properly. The program malloc a heap memory for parsing data, but does not free it when error in parsing. Sending specific requests to the dcmqrdb program incur the memory leak. An attacker can use it to launch a DoS attack.

Affected products

• OFFIS DCMTK: through 3.6.6

References

• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/a9697dfeb672b0b9412c00c7d36d801e27ec85cb
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00022.html
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/a9697dfeb672b0b9412c00c7d36d801e27ec85cb
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00022.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00032.html

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