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RedHat: RHSA-2020:1172-01 Moderate: Qt Crash and DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
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Oracle delivers a critical OpenSSL security patch for Linux 8, resolving various vulnerabilities that could disrupt network services.
An update for qt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The qt packages contain a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications for the X Window System.
Security Fix(es):
* qt5-qtbase: Double free in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2018-15518)
* qt: Malformed PPM image causing division by zero and crash in qppmhandler.cpp (CVE-2018-19872)
* qt5-qtsvg: Invalid parsing of malformed url reference resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-19869)
* qt5-qtbase: QImage allocation failure in qgifhandler (CVE-2018-19870)
* qt5-qtimageformats: QTgaFile CPU exhaustion (CVE-2018-19871)
* qt5-qtbase: QBmpHandler segmentation fault on malformed BMP file (CVE-2018-19873)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux Denial of Service segmentation fault qt update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15518 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19869 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19870 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19871 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19872 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19873 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: qt-4.8.7-8.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: qt-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-debuginfo-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-debuginfo-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-mysql-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-mysql-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-x11-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-x11-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: qt-devel-private-4.8.7-8.el7.noarch.rpm qt-doc-4.8.7-8.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: qt-assistant-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-config-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-debuginfo-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-debuginfo-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-demos-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-devel-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-devel-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-examples-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-odbc-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-odbc-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-postgresql-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-postgresql-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-qdbusviewer-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-qvfb-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: qt-4.8.7-8.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: qt-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-debuginfo-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-debuginfo-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm qt-x11-4.8.7-8.el7.i686.rpm qt-x11-4.8.7-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: qt-devel-private-4.8.7-8.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1172-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1172
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

An update for qt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux Denial of Service segmentation fault qt update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1658996 - CVE-2018-19870 qt5-qtbase: QImage allocation failure in qgifhandler

1658998 - CVE-2018-19873 qt5-qtbase: QBmpHandler segmentation fault on malformed BMP file

1659000 - CVE-2018-15518 qt5-qtbase: Double free in QXmlStreamReader

1661460 - CVE-2018-19869 qt5-qtsvg: Invalid parsing of malformed url reference resulting in a denial of service

1661465 - CVE-2018-19871 qt5-qtimageformats: QTgaFile CPU exhaustion

1691636 - CVE-2018-19872 qt: Malformed PPM image causing division by zero and crash in qppmhandler.cpp

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