CVE-2026-5442

| EUVD-2026-20920
2026-04-09 certcc GHSA-f2m7-r4gw-p642

Lifecycle Timeline

2
EUVD ID Assigned
Apr 09, 2026 - 15:00 euvd
EUVD-2026-20920
CVE Published
Apr 09, 2026 - 14:43 nvd
N/A

Description

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.

Analysis

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. …

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Priority Score

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KEV: 0
EPSS: +0.0
CVSS: +0
POC: 0

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