Gentoo GLSA-200708-16 Normal: Qt Format String Remote Execution Risk
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August 23, 2007
Format string vulnerabilities in Qt 3 may lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code in some Qt applications.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Qt: Multiple format string vulnerabilities
Date: August 22, 2007
Bugs: #185446
ID: 200708-16
Synopsis
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Format string vulnerabilities in Qt 3 may lead to the remote execution
of arbitrary code in some Qt applications.
Background
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Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 x11-libs/qt < 3.3.8-r3 >= 3.3.8-r3
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Tim Brown of Portcullis Computer Security Ltd and Dirk Mueller of KDE
reported multiple format string errors in qWarning() calls in files
qtextedit.cpp, qdatat...
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