Gentoo Linux: GLSA-200710-28 Normal: Qt Buffer Overflow Risk
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October 25, 2007
An off-by-one vulnerability has been discovered in Qt, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-28
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Qt: Buffer overflow
Date: October 25, 2007
Bugs: #192472
ID: 200710-28
Synopsis
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An off-by-one vulnerability has been discovered in Qt, possibly
resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
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-r4 >= 3.3.8-r4
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Dirk Mueller from the KDE development team discovered a boundary error
in file qutfcodec.cpp when processing Unicode strings.
Impact
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A remote attacker could send a specially craft...
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