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Fedora 28 : qt3 (2018-17843a895b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120254

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2016-10040, a stack overflow in QXmlSimpleReader due to a too lenient entityCharacterLimit in our version of the patch for CVE-2013-4549. (The limit was increased from the upstream 1024 to 65536 to address QTBUG-35459, an issue where the security fix was breaking existing real-world XML files. Unfortunately, that is too much to actually fit on the CPU stack. This fix decreases the limit to 4096.)

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Solution

Update the affected qt3 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-17843a895b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120254

File Name: fedora_2018-17843a895b.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4549

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10040

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qt3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4549, CVE-2016-10040