[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1123584: dcmtk: CVE-2025-14841

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: dcmtk
Version: 3.6.9-6
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1183
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for dcmtk.

CVE-2025-14841[0]:
| A flaw has been found in OFFIS DCMTK up to 3.6.9. The impacted
| element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveIndexDatabaseHandle::startFi
| ndRequest/DcmQueryRetrieveIndexDatabaseHandle::startMoveRequest in
| the library dcmqrdb/libsrc/dcmqrdbi.cc of the component dcmqrscp.
| This manipulation causes null pointer dereference. The attack
| requires local access. Upgrading to version 3.7.0 is sufficient to
| resolve this issue. Patch name:
| ffb1a4a37d2c876e3feeb31df4930f2aed7fa030. You should upgrade the
| affected component.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-14841
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14841
[1] https://support.dcmtk.org/redmine/issues/1183
[2] https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/ffb1a4a37d2c876e3feeb31df4930f2aed7fa030

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore