CISA flags critical flaw in grassroots DICOM imaging library

The U.S. federal government is warning of a high severity in an open-source library commonly used for medical imaging products that could allow an attacker to crash hospital imaging systems. There is no patch.

DICOM – Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine – is an international standard implemented most radiology, cardiology imaging, and radiotherapy devices for storing and retrieving medical image information.

The DICOM standard is a widely used, said Himaja Motheram, security researcher at security firm Censys. “It’s been around forever, since the early 2000s and has significant GitHub activity and academic citations.

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