Bug 2548018 - CVE-2026-44038 dcmtk: dcmtk: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in JPEG decoder [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-44038 dcmtk: dcmtk: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in JPEG...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: dcmtk
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD)
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-44038
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Reported: 2026-10-08 15:35 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-10-08 15:35 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-10-08 15:35:55 UTC
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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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