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GLSA-202501-08 : Qt: Buffer Overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 214557

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202501-08 (Qt: Buffer Overflow)

 When given specifically crafted data then QXmlStreamReader can end up causing a buffer overflow and subsequently a crash or freeze or get out of memory on recursive entity expansion, with DTD tokens in XML body.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo 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

All Qt users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.10-r1 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-qt/qtbase-6.5.2

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202501-08

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911790

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214557

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202501-08.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:qtcore, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:qtbase

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-37369, CVE-2023-38197