USN-8235-1: ITK vulnerabilities

Publication date

7 May 2026

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in ITK.

Releases


Packages

  • insighttoolkit - Toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration

Details

It was discovered that Expat, vendored in ITK incorrectly handled certain
files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236)

It was discovered that Expat, vendored in ITK incorrectly handled certain
files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 LTS xenial libinsighttoolkit3.20 –  3.20.1+git20120521-6ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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