QSslSocket in Qt before 4.7.0-rc1 recognizes a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2012:0880 :

Updated qt packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Qt is a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System. HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the harfbuzz module in Qt. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against Qt, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-3922)

A flaw was found in the way Qt handled X.509 certificates with IP address wildcards. An attacker able to obtain a certificate with a Common Name containing an IP wildcard could possibly use this flaw to impersonate an SSL server to client applications that are using Qt.
This update also introduces more strict handling for hostname wildcard certificates by disallowing the wildcard character to match more than one hostname component. (CVE-2010-5076)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* The Phonon API allowed premature freeing of the media object.
Consequently, GStreamer could terminate unexpectedly as it failed to access the released media object. This update modifies the underlying Phonon API code and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#694684)

* Previously, Qt could output the 'Unrecognized OpenGL version' error and fall back to OpenGL-version-1 compatibility mode. This happened because Qt failed to recognize the version of OpenGL installed on the system if the system was using a version of OpenGL released later than the Qt version in use. This update adds the code for recognition of OpenGL versions to Qt and if the OpenGL version is unknown, Qt assumes that the last-known version of OpenGL is available. (BZ#757793)

* Previously Qt included a compiled-in list of trusted CA (Certificate Authority) certificates, that could have been used if Qt failed to open a system's ca-bundle.crt file. With this update, Qt no longer includes compiled-in CA certificates and only uses the system bundle.
(BZ#734444)

Users of Qt should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against Qt libraries must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Qt is a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System. HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the harfbuzz module in Qt. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against Qt, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-3922)

A flaw was found in the way Qt handled X.509 certificates with IP address wildcards. An attacker able to obtain a certificate with a Common Name containing an IP wildcard could possibly use this flaw to impersonate an SSL server to client applications that are using Qt.
This update also introduces more strict handling for hostname wildcard certificates by disallowing the wildcard character to match more than one hostname component. (CVE-2010-5076)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - The Phonon API allowed premature freeing of the media     object. Consequently, GStreamer could terminate     unexpectedly as it failed to access the released media     object. This update modifies the underlying Phonon API     code and the problem no longer occurs.

  - Previously, Qt could output the 'Unrecognized OpenGL     version' error and fall back to OpenGL-version-1     compatibility mode. This happened because Qt failed to     recognize the version of OpenGL installed on the system     if the system was using a version of OpenGL released     later than the Qt version in use. This update adds the     code for recognition of OpenGL versions to Qt and if the     OpenGL version is unknown, Qt assumes that the     last-known version of OpenGL is available.

  - Previously Qt included a compiled-in list of trusted CA     (Certificate Authority) certificates, that could have     been used if Qt failed to open a system's ca-bundle.crt     file. With this update, Qt no longer includes     compiled-in CA certificates and only uses the system     bundle.

Users of Qt should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against Qt libraries must be restarted for this update to take effect.

It was discovered that Qt did not properly handle wildcard domain names or IP addresses in the Common Name field of X.509 certificates.
An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-5076)

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the HarfBuzz module. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted font file in a Qt application, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2011-3193)

It was discovered that Qt did not properly handle greyscale TIFF images. If a Qt application could be made to process a crafted TIFF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3194).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Updated qt packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Qt is a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System. HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the harfbuzz module in Qt. If a user loaded a specially crafted font file with an application linked against Qt, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-3922)

A flaw was found in the way Qt handled X.509 certificates with IP address wildcards. An attacker able to obtain a certificate with a Common Name containing an IP wildcard could possibly use this flaw to impersonate an SSL server to client applications that are using Qt.
This update also introduces more strict handling for hostname wildcard certificates by disallowing the wildcard character to match more than one hostname component. (CVE-2010-5076)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* The Phonon API allowed premature freeing of the media object.
Consequently, GStreamer could terminate unexpectedly as it failed to access the released media object. This update modifies the underlying Phonon API code and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#694684)

* Previously, Qt could output the 'Unrecognized OpenGL version' error and fall back to OpenGL-version-1 compatibility mode. This happened because Qt failed to recognize the version of OpenGL installed on the system if the system was using a version of OpenGL released later than the Qt version in use. This update adds the code for recognition of OpenGL versions to Qt and if the OpenGL version is unknown, Qt assumes that the last-known version of OpenGL is available. (BZ#757793)

* Previously Qt included a compiled-in list of trusted CA (Certificate Authority) certificates, that could have been used if Qt failed to open a system's ca-bundle.crt file. With this update, Qt no longer includes compiled-in CA certificates and only uses the system bundle.
(BZ#734444)

Users of Qt should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against Qt libraries must be restarted for this update to take effect.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
68557	Oracle Linux 6 : qt (ELSA-2012-0880)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
61347	Scientific Linux Security Update : qt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120620)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
59957	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 : qt4-x11 vulnerabilities (USN-1504-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
59928	CentOS 6 : qt (CESA-2012:0880)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
59593	RHEL 6 : qt (RHSA-2012:0880)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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