Fedora 20 : qt5-qtbase-5.4.1-9.fc20 (2015-6315)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83070

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Qt image format handling of BMP, ICO and GIF files. The issues exposed included denial of service and buffer overflows leading to heap corruption. It is possible the latter could be used to perform remote code execution.

See also http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2015-April/000067.html

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 qt5-qtbase package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83070

File Name: fedora_2015-6315.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qt5-qtbase

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1858, CVE-2015-1859, CVE-2015-1860

FEDORA: 2015-6315

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