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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-43272 json

DCMTK v3.6.7 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the T_ASC_Association object.

published 2022-12-02 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-46316

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

DCMTK v3.6.7 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the T_ASC_Association object.

Patch / fix

  • dcmtk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.7-8

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-43272

  • dcmtk Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.6.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 3.6.4-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • dcmtk Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 3.6.6-5ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-43272

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dcmtk Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 3.6.7-bp154.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2023:0108-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-43272 updated cvss 5.9

dcmtk: memory leak via the T_ASC_Association object.

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • wolai.com https://www.wolai.com/vaVuMxU4gGqFakbzvc9NYw referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • offis dcmtk

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.