Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting dcmtk package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-DCMTK-17739965
  • published1 Jul 2026
  • disclosed30 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-35505  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for dcmtk.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime via repeated crafted connection requests to the process. An attacker can cause memory to be leaked by sending multiple specially crafted requests, which may eventually exhaust system resources and disrupt service availability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1