USN-5882-1: DCMTK vulnerabilities

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Gjoko Krstic discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. If a user or
an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8979)

Omar Ganiev discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. If a user or
an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-1010228)

Jinsheng Ba discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain requests. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially
crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41687,
CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689, and CVE-2021-41690)

Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled
certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening
a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-2119 and CVE-2022-2120)

Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled
pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a
certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-2121)

It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially
crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10.
(CVE-2022-43272)

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