CVE-2026-44036

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44036
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44036.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-44036
Downstream
Published
2026-10-08T13:17:17Z
Modified
2026-10-10T07:06:16Z
Severity
  • 6.8 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Uncontrolled mutual recursion between DcmXMLParseHelper::parseDataSet() and DcmXMLParseHelper::parseSequence() in the XML-to-DICOM converter (dcmdata/libdcxml/xml2dcm.cc) of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted XML file with deeply nested sequence and item elements. The xml2dcm tool and any service that converts untrusted XML to DICOM with this code are affected. The issue is fixed in commit 87f256d73e30656a822bf7d76d1cf1d9bb693954.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/dcmtk/dcmtk

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/dcmtk/dcmtk
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
87f256d73e30656a822bf7d76d1cf1d9bb693954
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

CAR96-3.*
CAR96-3.0.1
CAR96-3.0.2
DCMTK-3.*
DCMTK-3.1.0
DCMTK-3.1.1
DCMTK-3.1.2
DCMTK-3.2.0
DCMTK-3.2.1
DCMTK-3.3.0
DCMTK-3.3.1
DCMTK-3.4.0
DCMTK-3.4.1
DCMTK-3.4.2
DCMTK-3.5.0
DCMTK-3.5.1
DCMTK-3.5.2
DCMTK-3.5.2a
DCMTK-3.5.3
DCMTK-3.5.4
DCMTK-3.6.0
DCMTK-3.6.1_20110225
DCMTK-3.6.1_20110519
DCMTK-3.6.1_20110707
DCMTK-3.6.1_20110922
DCMTK-3.6.1_20111208
DCMTK-3.6.1_20120222
DCMTK-3.6.1_20120515
DCMTK-3.6.1_20120831
DCMTK-3.6.1_20121102
DCMTK-3.6.1_20131114
DCMTK-3.6.1_20140617
DCMTK-3.6.1_20150217
DCMTK-3.6.1_20150629
DCMTK-3.6.1_20150924
DCMTK-3.6.1_20160216
DCMTK-3.6.1_20160630
DCMTK-3.6.1_20161102
DCMTK-3.6.1_20170228
DCMTK-3.6.2
DCMTK-3.6.3
DCMTK-3.6.4
DCMTK-3.6.5
DCMTK-3.6.5+_20191213
DCMTK-3.6.6
DCMTK-3.6.7
DCMTK-3.6.8
DCMTK-3.6.9
DCMTK-3.7.0
Other
latest

Database specific

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