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CVE-2021-41690

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.63% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-06-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2021-41690
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.63%

Original NVD Description

DCMTK through 3.6.6 does not handle memory free properly. The malloced memory for storing all file information are recorded in a global variable LST and are not freed properly. Sending specific requests to the dcmqrdb program can incur a memory leak. An attacker can use it to launch a DoS attack.