GLSA 202501-08: Qt: Buffer Overflow
Severity: | normal |
Title: | Qt: Buffer Overflow |
Date: | 01/23/2025 |
Bugs: |
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ID: | 202501-08 |
Synopsis
A vulnerability has been discovered in Qt, where a buffer overflow can lead to denial of service.Background
Qt is a cross-platform application development framework.
Affected packages
Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
---|---|---|---|
dev-qt/qtcore | < 5.15.10-r1 | >= 5.15.10-r1 | All supported architectures |
dev-qt/qtbase | < 6.5.2 | >= 6.5.2 | All supported architectures |
Description
When given specifically crafted data then QXmlStreamReader can end up causing a buffer overflow and subsequently a crash or freeze or get out of memory on recursive entity expansion, with DTD tokens in XML body.
Impact
Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Qt users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.10-r1" # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-qt/qtbase-6.5.2"
References
Availability
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Concerns?
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License
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