Source: dcmtk Version: 3.7.0+really3.7.0-7 X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1224
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for dcmtk. CVE-2026-44036[0]: | Uncontrolled mutual recursion between | DcmXMLParseHelper::parseDataSet() and | DcmXMLParseHelper::parseSequence() in the XML-to-DICOM converter | (dcmdata/libdcxml/xml2dcm.cc) of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an | attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process | crash) via a crafted XML file with deeply nested sequence and item | elements. The xml2dcm tool and any service that converts untrusted | XML to DICOM with this code are affected. The issue is fixed in | commit 87f256d73e30656a822bf7d76d1cf1d9bb693954. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-44036 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44036 [1] https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1224 [2] https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/87f256d73e30656a822bf7d76d1cf1d9bb693954 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
