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DICOM, Pydicom, GDCM, and Orthanc: A technical tour of what really happens in the heap
Healthcare imaging systems using DICOM parsing libraries expose memory corruption attack surfaces in critical medical infrastructure environments.
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This white paper presents a concrete case study demonstrating the creation of a heap overflow vulnerability through the exploitation of the DICOM file format.
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