CVE-2026-97059

DCMTK through 3.7.0 contains a heap over-read vulnerability in ConcatenationLoader that copies pixel data frames without validating the PixelData buffer length against the declared NumberOfFrames. Attackers can craft malicious DICOM instances declaring more frames than the buffer contains to trigger heap over-reads that crash the application or leak adjacent heap memory.

CVSS 4.0

8.8CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

8.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-125

Published

2026-09-24

Modified

2026-09-30

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/blob/ccfd10b84ff3c9a40b7b331698aedf06d421fc43/dcmfg/libsrc/concatenationloader.cc#L334-L360
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/blob/ccfd10b84ff3c9a40b7b331698aedf06d421fc43/dcmfg/libsrc/concatenationloader.cc#L399-L430
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/18379d5b8d234977cc30644e9e70d76d89c87285
• https://github.com/DCMTK/dcmtk/commit/c33790827a192a598d20463af701a8b819f46ec1

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