SB2020012420 - Denial of service in Qt
Published: January 24, 2020 Updated: February 2, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020012420
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9541)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of SVG files within QXmlStreamReader(). A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted SVG document and perform an exponential XML entity expansion attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.