Debian DLA-2377-1 : qt4-x11 security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140932

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were fixed in qt4-x11, the legacy version of the Qt toolkit.

CVE-2018-15518

Double-free or corruption in QXmlStreamReader during parsing of a specially crafted illegal XML document.

CVE-2018-19869

A malformed SVG image causes a segmentation fault.

CVE-2018-19870

A malformed GIF image causes a NULL pointer dereference in QGifHandler resulting in a segmentation fault.

CVE-2018-19871

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in QTgaFile.

CVE-2018-19872

A malformed PPM image causes a crash.

CVE-2018-19873

QBmpHandler segfault on malformed BMP file.

CVE-2020-17507

Buffer over-read in the XBM parser.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your qt4-x11 packages.

For the detailed security status of qt4-x11 please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/qt4-x11

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00023.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/qt4-x11

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/qt4-x11

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140932

File Name: debian_DLA-2377.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2020

Updated: 2/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qdbus, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-xml, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-qmake, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-tds, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqtdbus4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-demos-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-declarative-shaders, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-ibase, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqtcore4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-default, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-dev-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-help, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-psql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-declarative-folderlistmodel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-sqlite2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-svg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-qtconfig, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-opengl-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-odbc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-bin-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-declarative, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-demos, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-phonon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-designer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-dev-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-scripttools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqtgui4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-dbus, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-qt3support, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-xmlpatterns-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-designer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-declarative-gestures, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-declarative-particles, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-qmlviewer, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qtcore4-l10n, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-test, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-network, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-designer-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-doc-html, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-script, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-sql-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt4-linguist-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-opengl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-xmlpatterns, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-qt3support-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libqt4-script-dbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15518, CVE-2018-19869, CVE-2018-19870, CVE-2018-19871, CVE-2018-19872, CVE-2018-19873, CVE-2020-17507