Bug 2547943 (CVE-2026-44038) - CVE-2026-44038 dcmtk: dcmtk: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in JPEG decoder
Summary: CVE-2026-44038 dcmtk: dcmtk: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in JPEG...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-44038
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2548018 2548022
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-10-08 13:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-08 15:37 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-08 13:01:46 UTC
A global out-of-bounds read in the Huffman decoder of the bundled IJG JPEG libraries (dcmjpeg/libijg8, libijg12 and libijg16) of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to read memory beyond the extend_test[] and extend_offset[] tables, causing incorrectly decoded pixel data or a crash, via a DICOM file with a crafted JPEG stream whose Huffman table defines a difference category above 15. Huffman symbol values are not range-checked unless DCMTK is built with DCMTK_ENABLE_STRICT_HUFFMAN_TABLE_CHECK, which is disabled by default. dcmdjpeg and any application that decompresses JPEG DICOM images with DCMTK are affected. The issue is fixed in commit d6ae1bc8d5b9ae9c7300013c8c85cc2ea0fd8cf5.


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