RHEL 7 : qt (RHSA-2020:1172)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 135039

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for qt.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1172 advisory.

The qt packages contain a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications for the X Window System.

Security Fix(es):

* qt5-qtbase: Double free in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2018-15518)

* qt: Malformed PPM image causing division by zero and crash in qppmhandler.cpp (CVE-2018-19872)

* qt5-qtsvg: Invalid parsing of malformed url reference resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-19869)

* qt5-qtbase: QImage allocation failure in qgifhandler (CVE-2018-19870)

* qt5-qtimageformats: QTgaFile CPU exhaustion (CVE-2018-19871)

* qt5-qtbase: QBmpHandler segmentation fault on malformed BMP file (CVE-2018-19873)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL qt package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1172.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 135039

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1172.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/31/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19873

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel-private, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-postgresql, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-qdbusviewer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-demos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-assistant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-qvfb

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15518, CVE-2018-19869, CVE-2018-19870, CVE-2018-19871, CVE-2018-19872, CVE-2018-19873

BID: 106286, 106327, 106338

CWE: 20, 369, 400, 416

RHSA: 2020:1172

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