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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-1756-01 Moderate Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat publishes a significant security advisory related to the qt5-qtbase package, resolving a critical buffer overflow vulnerability. Find additional details.
An update for qt5-qtbase is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The qt5-base packages contain base tools for string, xml, and network handling in Qt.
Security Fix(es):
* qt: buffer over-read in read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp (CVE-2020-17507)
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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat buffer overflow software update security fix qt5-qtbase

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-17507 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: qt5-qtbase-5.12.5-8.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: qt5-qtbase-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-debugsource-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-devel-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-devel-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-examples-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-examples-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-gui-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-gui-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-mysql-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-mysql-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-odbc-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-odbc-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-postgresql-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-postgresql-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-private-devel-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm qt5-qtbase-tests-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: qt5-qtbase-common-5.12.5-8.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: qt5-qtbase-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm qt5-qtbase-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm qt5-qtbase-debugsource-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm qt5-qtbase-devel-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm qt5-qtbase-devel-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm qt5-qtbase-examples-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm qt5-qtbase-examples-debuginfo-5.12.5-8.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1756-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1756
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for qt5-qtbase is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 Red Hat buffer overflow software update security fix qt5-qtbase

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1868532 - CVE-2020-17507 qt: buffer over-read in read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp

1882375 - CentOS8 - numpad do not work in KDE Plasma

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