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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-1010228 json

OFFIS.de DCMTK 3.6.3 and below is affected by: Buffer Overflow.

published 2019-07-22 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-1970

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.8%
EPSS 7.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • dcmtk Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.6.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010228

  • 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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010228

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

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-2019-1010228 updated cvss 7.3

DCMTK: buffer overflow in DcmRLEDecoder::decompress() leads to possible code execution and denial of service

  • 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

Exploit prediction

7.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • support.dcmtk.org https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/858 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • OFFIS.de DCMTK

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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