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Fedora 41: xmedcon CVE Fixes Upgrade 0.25.3 Advisory FEDORA-2025

Linuxsecurity •LinuxSecurity Advisories • November 17, 2025

This project stands for Medical Image Conversion and is released under the GNU's (L)GPL license. It bundles the C source code, a library, a flexible command-line utility and a graphical front-end based on the amazing Gtk+ toolkit. Its main purpose is image conversion while preserving valuable medical study information. The currently supported formats are: Acr/Nema 2.0, Analyze (SPM), Concorde/uPET, DICOM 3.0, CTI ECAT 6/7, InterFile 3.3 and PNG or Gif87a/89a towards desktop applications. Update Information : upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

This project stands for Medical Image Conversion and is released under the

GNU's (L)GPL license. It bundles the C source code, a library, a flexible

command-line utility and a graphical front-end based on the amazing Gtk+

Its main purpose is image conversion while preserving valuable medical

study information. The currently supported formats are: Acr/Nema 2.0,

Analyze (SPM), Concorde/uPET, DICOM 3.0, CTI ECAT 6/7, InterFile 3.3

and PNG or Gif87a/89a towards desktop applications.

upgraded to 0.25.3 fixes open bugs, CVEs, etc

* Sat Nov 8 2025 Filipe Rosset - 0.25.3-1 - update to 0.25.3 * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.24.1-3 - Rebuilt for * Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.24.1-2 - Rebuilt for

[ 1 ] Bug #2335506 - xmedcon-0.25.0 is available [ 2 ] Bug #2341576 - xmedcon: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f42 [ 3 ] Bug #2354002 - CVE-2025-2581 xmedcon: xmedcon DICOM File malloc integer underflow [fedora-41] [ 4 ] Bug #2385742 - xmedcon: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f43

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9d4a8ab586' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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Critical CVE Fixes for xmedcon in Fedora 41 and 42 Fedora has released critical updates for the xmedcon software, which is used for medical image conversion. The updates address vulnerabilities identified as CVE-2025, affecting users of Fedora 41 and 42. The software supports various medical image formats and is crucial for preserving medical study information. 2 sources 27

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CVE-2025-2581