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CVE-2024-24794

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 1.05%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2024-02-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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-2024-24794
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_sequence_end()` parsing the Sequence Value Represenations.

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