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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-22170 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.
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Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Imaging Data Commons
Imaging Data Commons libdicom
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:imaging_data_commons:libdicom:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Imaging Data Commons
Imaging Data Commons libdicom
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000


Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00245}

epss

{'score': 0.00304}


Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Nih
Nih libdicom
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:nih:libdicom:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Nih
Nih libdicom

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:29:14.746Z

Reserved: 2024-01-30T17:12:10.382Z

Link: CVE-2024-24794

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:29:14.746Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-20T11:15:08.343

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:16:58.070

Link: CVE-2024-24794

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