RHEL 8 : qt5-qtbase (RHSA-2021:1756)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149691

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1756 advisory.

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL qt5-qtbase package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:1756.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1756.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:qt5-qtbase-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-odbc, 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-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt5-qtbase-mysql, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-17507

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2021:1756

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