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Fedora 40 FEDORA-2024-bfb8617ba3 Critical: Qt6 Keyboard Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Qt 6.7.1 patch for Fedora 40 addresses concerns regarding personalized keyboard configurations and enhancements to text prediction functionalities.
Qt 6.7.1 bugfix update.

Summary

The Qt Virtual Keyboard project provides an input framework and reference keyboard frontend

for Qt 6. Key features include:

* Customizable keyboard layouts and styles with dynamic switching.

* Predictive text input with word selection.

* Character preview and alternative character view.

* Automatic capitalization and space insertion.

* Scalability to different resolutions.

* Support for different character sets (Latin, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and others).

* Support for most common input languages, with possibility to easily extend the language support.

* Left-to-right and right-to-left input.

* Hardware key support for 2-way and 5-way navigation.

* Handwriting support, with gestures for fullscreen input.

* Audio feedback.

Update Information:

Qt 6.7.1 bugfix update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora bugfix input framework keyboard Qt6

Change Log

* Tue May 21 2024 Jan Grulich - 6.7.1-1 - 6.7.1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2282868 - CVE-2024-36048 qt6-qtnetworkauth: qtnetworkauth: badly seeded PRNG may result in guessable values [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282868 [ 2 ] Bug #2282870 - CVE-2024-36048 qt6-qtnetworkauth: qtnetworkauth: badly seeded PRNG may result in guessable values [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282870

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-bfb8617ba3' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: qt6-qtvirtualkeyboard
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 6.7.1
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://www.qt.io/
Summary: Qt6 - VirtualKeyboard component

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora bugfix input framework keyboard Qt6

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