Detections
Analytics

Debian DSA-542-1 : qt - unsanitised input

high Nessus Plugin ID 15379

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in recent versions of Qt, a commonly used graphic widget set, used in KDE for example. The first problem allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, while the other two only seem to pose a denial of service danger. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities :

 - CAN-2004-0691 :
 Chris Evans has discovered a heap-based overflow when handling 8-bit RLE encoded BMP files.

 - CAN-2004-0692 :

 Marcus Meissner has discovered a crash condition in the XPM handling code, which is not yet fixed in Qt 3.3.

 - CAN-2004-0693 :

 Marcus Meissner has discovered a crash condition in the GIF handling code, which is not yet fixed in Qt 3.3.

Solution

Upgrade the qt packages.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.3-20020329-1woody2.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267092

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-542

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15379

File Name: debian_DSA-542.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:qt-copy

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: 8/30/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0691, CVE-2004-0692, CVE-2004-0693

DSA: 542