CVE-2019-1010228

Publication date 22 July 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dcmtk	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5882-1
DCMTK vulnerabilities
22 February 2023