The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7010-1 advisory.

    Jinsheng Ba discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain requests. If a user or an automated system     were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41687,     CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689, CVE-2021-41690)

    Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an     automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-2121)

    It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-43272)

    It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were     tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2024-28130)

    It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled memory when processing an invalid incoming DIMSE message.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-34508, CVE-2024-34509)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : DCMTK vulnerabilities (USN-7010-1)

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