Resource management error in Qt - CVE-2015-9541
Published: February 2, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24821
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9541
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Qt
Fedora
Fedora-Astronomy_KDE-Live
qt5-qtbase
Fedora
Fedora-Astronomy_KDE-Live
qt5-qtbase
How to mitigate CVE-2015-9541
Install updates from vendor's website.
Qt - addressed in versions 5.12.7, 5.14.1
Fedora-Astronomy_KDE-Live - update to Rawhide-20200408.n.0
qt5-qtbase - addressed in versions 5.13.2-3.fc31, 5.13.2-5.fc32
Fedora-Astronomy_KDE-Live - update to Rawhide-20200408.n.0
qt5-qtbase - addressed in versions 5.13.2-3.fc31, 5.13.2-5.fc32