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dcmtk — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2025-9732

A vulnerability was identified in DCMTK up to 3.6.9. This affects an unknown function in the library dcmimage/include/dcmtk/dcmimage/diybrpxt.h of the component dcm2img. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The name of the patch is 7ad81d69b. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

Products
dcmtk
Affected versions
3.6.7-8, 3.6.7-9~deb12u1, 3.6.7-9~deb12u2, 3.6.7-9~deb12u3, 3.6.9-5
Fixed versions
3.6.7-9~deb12u4, 3.6.9-5+deb13u1, 3.6.9-6
CVEs
CVE-2025-9732
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 22:38 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-9732

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Aug 2025, 14:15 UTC

A vulnerability was identified in DCMTK up to 3.6.9. This affects an unknown function in the library dcmimage/include/dcmtk/dcmimage/diybrpxt.h of the component dcm2img. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The name of the patch is 7ad81d69b. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2025-9732

dcmtk

Fixed versions: 3.6.7-9~deb12u4

dcmtk

Fixed versions: 3.6.9-5+deb13u1

dcmtk

Fixed versions: 3.6.9-6

Complete source record
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