CVE-2013-6825 DCMTK Root Privilege escalation

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