DCMTK

In cases were an application sends a Associate Request with some wrong content, the application crashes.
Mathieu Malaterre reported this effect with storescp.

Example of the crash:

D: PDU Type: Associate Request, PDU Length: 237 + 6 bytes PDU header
D: 01 00 00 00 00 ed 00 01 00 00 47 44 43 4d 5f 53
D: 54 4f 52 45 20 20 20 20 20 20 47 44 43 4d 44 41
D: 53 48 33 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
D: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 15 31 2e
D: 32 2e 38 34 30 2e 31 30 30 30 38 2e 33 2e 31 2e
D: 31 2e 31 20 00 00 36 01 00 00 00 30 00 00 19 31
D: 2e 32 2e 38 34 30 2e 31 30 30 30 38 2e 35 2e 31
D: 2e 34 2e 31 2e 31 2e 34 40 00 00 11 31 2e 32 2e
D: 38 34 30 2e 31 30 30 30 38 2e 31 2e 32 50 00 00
D: 52 51 00 00 04 00 00 40 00 52 00 00 30 31 2e 32
D: 2e 38 32 36 2e 30 2e 31 2e 33 36 38 30 30 34 33
D: 2e 32 2e 31 31 34 33 2e 31 30 37 2e 31 30 34 2e
D: 31 30 33 2e 31 31 35 2e 32 2e 32 2e 33 54 00 00
D: 04 00 00 31 2e 32 2e 38 34 30 2e 31 30 30 30 38
D: 2e 35 2e

At the end there is the incomming item roleselectionitem

54 00 00 04 00 00 31 2e 32 2e 38 34 30 2e 31 30 30 30 38 2e
35 2e

With Length 4
And a UID length of 0

Logfile:
...
T: Subitem parse: Type 54, Length 0004, Content: 49 46
T: Parsing remaining 14 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 32
T: Parsing remaining 6 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 30
T: Parsing remaining 65534 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 00
T: Parsing remaining 65530 bytes of User Information
T: Parsing remaining 65526 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 00
T: Parsing remaining 65522 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 00
T: Parsing remaining 65518 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 00
T: Parsing remaining 65514 bytes of User Information
T: Next item type: 00
...

This wrong message should be recognized by dcmtk and either ignored or the connection have to be rejected.
Ideally the stack should recognize such pdu missmatch (wrong length of the item 54 coding, no uid length wrong scp/scu role) and stop trying to parse the rest of the pdu.