ubuntu · CVE-2015-8396

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-01-12 20:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:47:31 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8396 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gdcm), 18 status rows across 18 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 13, ignored 3, released 2.

Description:

Integer overflow in the ImageRegionReader::ReadIntoBuffer function in MediaStorageAndFileFormat/gdcmImageRegionReader.cxx in Grassroots DICOM (aka GDCM) before 2.6.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted header dimensions in a DICOM image file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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