UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4981

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4981

    Published: 21 Oct 2025Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-4981

    Summary:

    Details: A vulnerability was detected in DCMTK up to 3.6.7. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveConfig::readPeerList of the file /dcmqrcnf.cc of the component dcmqrscp. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 3.6.8 is sufficient to resolve this issue. The patch is identified as 957fb31e5. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-4981, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4981, https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1026

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dcmtk

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.6.0-15.1
    3.6.1~20150629-5
    3.6.1~20150924-4
    3.6.1~20150924-5
    3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
    3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm2
    3.6.1~20150924-5ubuntu0.1~esm3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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