CVE-2015-8396: Malaterre Grassroots Dicom

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the ImageRegionReader::ReadIntoBuffer function in MediaStorageAndFileFormat/gdcmImageRegionReader.cxx in Grassroots DICOM (aka GDCM) before 2.6.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted header dimensions in a DICOM image file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Malaterre Grassroots Dicom: up to and including 2.6.0; version 2.6.1 only

Published 2016-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.