CVE-2021-41687
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 28, 2022
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Reserved
- Sep 27, 2021
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
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