CVE-2013-6825 DCMTK Root Privilege escalation

[Hector Marco <hecmargi () upv es>]

CVE-2013-6825 DCMTK Root Privilege escalation

About DCMTK:

DCMTK is a collection of libraries and applications implementing large parts
the DICOM standard. It includes software for examining, constructing and
converting DICOM image files, handling offline media, sending and receiving
images over a network connection, as well as demonstrative image storage and
worklist servers



Vulnerability:

A bug in DCMTK for versions prior to 3.6.1 allows to do a privilege 
escalation.
All DCMTK versions since 1993 to the current 3.6.1 (released 
February-2014) are
affected. The vulnerable packages are:

- dcmpsrcv
- dcmprscp
- movescu
- storescp
- dcmqrscp
- wlmscpfs
- dcmrecv


Details, patches, discussion and strategy to exploit at:
http://hmarco.org/bugs/dcmtk-3.6.1-privilege-escalation.html



Hector Marco
http://hmarco.org