Bug 2548021 - CVE-2026-44037 dcmtk: dcmtk: Denial of Service via deeply nested DICOM JSON document [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-44037 dcmtk: dcmtk: Denial of Service via deeply nested DICOM JSON d...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dcmtk
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD)
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-44037
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Reported: 2026-10-08 15:37 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-10-08 15:37 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-10-08 15:37:41 UTC
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Uncontrolled mutual recursion between DcmJSONReader::parseDataSet(), DcmJSONReader::parseElement() and DcmJSONReader::parseSequence() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcjsonrd.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOM JSON document with deeply nested sequence (SQ) values. The json2dcm tool and any service that converts untrusted DICOM JSON (for example, DICOMweb payloads) with this reader are affected. The issue is fixed in commit cf955e64c35a1e07ba10698f639d5dcdec53b9d7.


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