A vulnerability has been found in xmedcon 0.25.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function malloc of the component DICOM File Handler. The manipulation leads to integer underflow. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.25.1 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-805b8f571a advisory.

    upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

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The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-977a26e133 advisory.

    upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

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The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-9d4a8ab586 advisory.

    upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability has been found in xmedcon 0.25.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this     vulnerability is the function malloc of the component DICOM File Handler. The manipulation leads to     integer underflow. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.25.1 is able to address     this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. (CVE-2025-2581)

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The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-4237 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4237-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                          Adrian Bunk     July 06, 2025                                 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : xmedcon     Version        : 0.16.3+dfsg-1+deb11u2     CVE ID         : CVE-2025-2581     Debian Bug     : 1100986

    Integer overflow on 32-bit systems has been fixed in the XMedCon toolkit     for medical image conversion.

    For Debian 11 bullseye, this problem has been fixed in version     0.16.3+dfsg-1+deb11u2.

    We recommend that you upgrade your xmedcon packages.

    For the detailed security status of xmedcon please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/xmedcon

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
275537	Fedora 42 : xmedcon (2025-805b8f571a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
275530	Fedora 43 : xmedcon (2025-977a26e133)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
275529	Fedora 41 : xmedcon (2025-9d4a8ab586)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
247674	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-2581	Nessus	Misc.	high
241388	Debian dla-4237 : libmdc-dev - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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