VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-24794

CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability1.05%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-02-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the DICOM Element Parsing as implemented in Imaging Data Commons libdicom 1.0.5. A specially crafted DICOM file can cause premature freeing of memory that is used later. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker would need to induce the vulnerable application to process a malicious DICOM image.The Use-After-Free happens in the `parse_meta_sequence_end()` parsing the Sequence Value Represenations.

Weakness classification

  • talos-cna@cisco.com: CWE-416

Primary references