CVE-2024-25569 Memory corruption in Grassroot DICOM

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause an out-of-bounds read in Grassroot DICOM by providing a malicious DICOM file, potentially leading to crashes or data exposure.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-25569?

CVE-2024-25569 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 25 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in the RAWCodec::DecodeBytes functionality of Mathieu Malaterre Grassroot DICOM 3.0.23. A specially crafted DICOM file can lead to an out-of-bounds read. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25569?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Malaterre Grassroots Dicom.

How do I fix CVE-2024-25569?

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-2024-25569 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-25569 exists.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25569, GHSA-jc42-r5p9-j2vr, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-25569.

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