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CVE-2021-41690

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2022-06-28 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

DCMTK through 3.6.6 does not handle memory free properly. The malloced memory for storing all file information are recorded in a global variable LST and are not freed properly. Sending specific requests to the dcmqrdb program can incur a memory leak. An attacker can use it to launch a DoS attack.

Affected Platforms

Offis Dcmtk

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References