CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2024-24793
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
1.05%
Original NVD Description
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the DICOM Element Parsing as implemented in Imaging Data Commons libdicom 1.0.5. A specially crafted DICOM file can cause premature freeing of memory that is used later. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker would need to induce the vulnerable application to process a malicious DICOM image.The Use-After-Free happens in the `parse_meta_element_create()` parsing the elements in the File Meta Information header.
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