SB2020060985 - Denial of service in Trolltech Qt



SB2020060985 - Denial of service in Trolltech Qt

Published: June 9, 2020 Updated: March 6, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2020060985
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Partial DoS

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13962)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak when handling TLS connections. A remote attacker can force the application to leak random memory parts to unrelated TLS sessions and cause a denial of service to QSslSocket users.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.