PT-2016-3900 · Grassroots · Grassroot Dicom

Stelios Tsampas · Published 2016-01-12 · Updated 2025-08-21 · CVE-2015-8397

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Grassroots DICOM versions prior to 2.6.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service via an embedded JPEG-LS image with dimensions larger than the selected region in a DICOM image file, triggering an out-of-bounds read.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.2, update to version 2.6.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the JPEGLSCodec::DecodeExtent function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8397

Affected Products

Grassroot Dicom

References · 16

• 🔥 http://census-labs.com/news/2016/01/11/gdcm-out-bounds-read-jpeglscodec-decodeextent · Exploit
• 🔥 http://sourceforge.net/p/gdcm/mailman/message/34670701 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://sourceforge.net/p/gdcm/mailman/message/34687533 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8397 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sourceforge.net/p/gdcm/gdcm/ci/e547b1ded3fd21e0b0ad149f13045aa12d4b9b7c · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8397 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8397 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8397 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/537263/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/8826 · Telegram Post
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/33 · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/133037 · Telegram Post