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RHEL 8 : qt5-qtbase (RHSA-2023:6967)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185691

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for qt5-qtbase.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6967 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 via a crafted reply from a DNS server (CVE-2023-33285)

 * qt: allows remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by flaw in certificate validation (CVE-2023-34410)

 * qtbase: buffer overflow in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-37369)

 * qtbase: infinite loops in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-38197)

 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 8.9 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 qt5-qtbase package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6967.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7200d193

http://www.nessus.org/u?819248f8

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209488

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212747

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222767

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232173

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6967

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6967.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34410

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33285, CVE-2023-34410, CVE-2023-37369, CVE-2023-38197

CWE: 120, 295, 400, 835

RHSA: 2023:6967