CVE-2019-1010228 Memory corruption in DCMTK

What is CVE-2019-1010228?

CVE-2019-1010228 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 22 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1010228?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Offis Dcmtk.

How do I fix CVE-2019-1010228?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-1010228 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1010228 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010228, GHSA-pqj4-82hx-mp43, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010228.