[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1142344: vtk-dicom: CVE-2026-22879

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: vtk-dicom
Version: 0.8.17-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole
Forwarded: https://github.com/dgobbi/vtk-dicom/pull/253
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for vtk-dicom.

CVE-2026-22879[0]:
| vtk vtk-dicom vtkDICOMItem::NewDataElement heap-based buffer
| overflow vulnerability

The pull rquest has not been reviewed at time of this writing.


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-2026-22879
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22879
[1] https://github.com/dgobbi/vtk-dicom/pull/253
[2] https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2026-2366

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore