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Gentoo: GLSA-202007-18 Normal: QtNetwork Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A vulnerability in QtNetwork may lead to Denial of Service attacks, risking application crashes and service interruptions. Update your systems now for safety
A vulnerability in QtNetwork could lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

A flaw was discovered in QtNetwork's handling of OpenSSL protocol errors.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo normal severity qtnetwork

Resolution

All QtNetwork users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-qt/qtnetwork-5.14.2-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2020-13962 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13962

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-18
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: QtNetwork: Denial of service
Date: July 26, 2020
Bugs: #727604
ID: 202007-18

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo normal severity qtnetwork

Synopsis

A vulnerability in QtNetwork could lead to a Denial of Service condition.

Background

QtNetwork provides a set of APIs for programming applications that use TCP/IP. It is part of the Qt framework.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-qt/qtnetwork < 5.14.2-r1 >= 5.14.2-r1

Impact

===== An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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