Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2626-1 Moderate: Qt Denial Of Service Risk

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June 3, 2015

Qt could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Qt could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a

specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- qt4-x11: Qt 4 libraries

- qtbase-opensource-src: Qt 5 libraries

Details:

Wolfgang Schenk discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed

GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a

specially crafted GIF image, a remote attacker could use this issue to

cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only

applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0190)

Fabian Vogt discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed BMP

images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially

crafted BMP image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Qt to

crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-0295)

Richard Moore and Fabian Vogt discovered that Qt incorrectly handled

certain malformed BMP images. If a user or automated system were tricked

into o...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update threat vulnerability ubuntu qt

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04:
  libqt5gui5                      5.4.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1
  libqtgui4                       4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 14.10:
  libqt5gui5                      5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9.1
  libqtgui4                       4:4.8.6+git49-gbc62005+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libqt5gui5                      5.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu14.3
  libqtgui4                       4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libqtgui4                       4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.