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Debian: DSA-1988-1 Critical Risk for qt4-x11 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 2, 2010
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Debian's DSA-1988-2 tackles multiple security flaws found in libxml2, reinforcing defenses against possible exploits.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in qt4-x11, a cross-platform C++ application framework

Summary


Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in qt4-x11, a cross-platform
C++ application framework.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2009-0945

Array index error in the insertItemBefore method in WebKit, as used in qt4-x11,
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.


CVE-2009-1687

The JavaScript garbage collector in WebKit, as used in qt4-x11 does not
properly handle allocation failures, which allows remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption
and application crash) via a crafted HTML document that triggers write
access to an "offset of a NULL pointer.


CVE-2009-1690

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in qt4-x11, allows remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory
corruption and application crash) by setting an unspecified property of
an HTML tag that causes child elements to be freed and later accessed
when an HTML error occurs.


CVE-2009-1698

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