CVE-2026-5442 PUBLISHED

Heap Buffer Overflow in DICOM Image Decoder via VR UL Dimensions

Assigner: certcc
Reserved: 02.04.2026 Published: 09.04.2026 Updated: 09.04.2026

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the DICOM image decoder. Dimension fields are encoded using Value Representation (VR) Unsigned Long (UL), instead of the expected VR Unsigned Short (US), which allows extremely large dimensions to be processed. This causes an integer overflow during frame size calculation and results in out-of-bounds memory access during image decoding.

Product Status

Vendor Orthanc
Product DICOM Server
Versions
  • affected from 0 to 1.12.10 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound