CVE-2022-4981 (GCVE-0-2022-4981)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-21 15:02
Modified
2025-10-21 15:22
Severity ?
1.9 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability was detected in DCMTK up to 3.6.7. The impacted element is the function DcmQueryRetrieveConfig::readPeerList of the file /dcmqrcnf.cc of the component dcmqrscp. The manipulation results in null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit is now public and may be used. Upgrading to version 3.6.8 is sufficient to resolve this issue. The patch is identified as 957fb31e5. Upgrading the affected component is advised.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a DCMTK Version: 3.6.0
Version: 3.6.1
Version: 3.6.2
Version: 3.6.3
Version: 3.6.4
Version: 3.6.5
Version: 3.6.6
Version: 3.6.7
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