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High · 8.1 CVE-2024-24794 EUVD-2024-22170GHSA-q769-33w3-x2hh

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the DICOM Element Parsing as implemented in Imaging Data Commons libdicom 1.0.5. A specially craft…

Published Feb 20, 2024 · Updated Nov 4, 2025 · Assigned by talos

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the DICOM Element Parsing as implemented in Imaging Data Commons libdicom 1.0.5. A specially crafted DICOM file can cause premature freeing of memory that is used later. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker would need to induce the vulnerable application to process a malicious DICOM image.The Use-After-Free happens in the `parse_meta_sequence_end()` parsing the Sequence Value Represenations.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Imaging Data Commons libdicom 1.0.5 —

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