RHEL 7 : qt and qt5-qtbase (RHSA-2020:5021)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142703

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for qt / qt5-qtbase.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5021 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.

Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The qt5-base packages contain base tools for string, xml, and network handling in Qt.

Security Fix(es):

* qt: buffer over-read in read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp (CVE-2020-17507)

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.

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

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

Solution

Update the RHEL qt / qt5-qtbase packages based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5021.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142703

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5021.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/11/2020

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: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-17507

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-qdbusviewer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-demos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-assistant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-qvfb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-examples, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel-private

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17507

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2020:5021

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