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Fedora 19 : qt3-3.3.8b-56.fc19 (2013-22883)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72111

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2013-4549 (XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service) in Qt 3. See the Qt Project Security Advisory for details:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-December/000036.ht ml

In addition, this update fixes :

 - QTBUG-35459, a too low character limit for XML entities enforced by the fix for CVE-2013-4549 that was breaking real-world XML files (in particular, the KatePart Lilypond syntax highlighting description),

 - QTBUG-35460, a misspelling in the error message produced by the CVE-2013-4549 fix when the character limit for XML entities was exceeded,

 - some minor format string abuse that was probably not exploitable (most instances definitely weren't).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qt3 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6cfa8350

http://www.nessus.org/u?84310b05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72111

File Name: fedora_2013-22883.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qt3, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4549

FEDORA: 2013-22883