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xmedcon — security advisory
xmedcon 0.23.0 and fixed in v.0.24.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via libs/dicom/basic.c which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
- Products
- xmedcon
- Affected versions
- 0.13.0-2, 0.14.1-1, 0.14.1-1build1, 0.14.1-2, 0.16.1+dfsg-1, 0.16.3+dfsg-1, 0.21.2+dfsg-1, 0.23.0-gtk3+dfsg-1, 0.23.0-gtk3+dfsg-1.1build1, 0.23.0-gtk3+dfsg-1.1build2, 0.23.0-gtk3+dfsg-1.1build3, 0.24.0-gtk3+dfsg-2, 0.25.1-gtk3+dfsg-1, 0.25.1-gtk3+dfsg-1build1, 0.26.1-gtk3+dfsg-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-29421
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
xmedcon 0.23.0 and fixed in v.0.24.0 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via libs/dicom/basic.c which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2024-29421
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Complete source record
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