Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Qt - CVE-2023-43114

 

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Qt - CVE-2023-43114

Published: June 14, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU92115
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-43114
CWE-ID: CWE-130
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 occurs when a corrupted font is loaded via QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont{FromData]. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Qt
Telemetry Dashboard
Liquidware
Citrix Workspace App
Webex App VDI
Pair
Dell Peripheral Manager
Cisco Jabber
openEuler
Cisco Webex Meetings
VMware Horizon Client
qt-debuginfo
qt-debugsource
qt-devel
qt

How to mitigate CVE-2023-43114

Install updates from vendor's website.

Qt - addressed in versions 5.15.16, 6.2.10, 6.5.3
Telemetry Dashboard - update to 1.1.0.6 on Thin OS 2405
Liquidware - update to 6.7.0.2.2 on Thin OS 2405
Cisco Jabber - update to 14.3.0.308378.11 on Thin OS 2405
Citrix Workspace App - update to 24.2.0.65.17 on Thin OS 2405
Webex App VDI - update to 44.2.0.28744.1 on Thin OS 2405
Cisco Webex Meetings - update to 44.2.0.76.2 on Thin OS 2405
VMware Horizon Client - update to 2312.1.8.12.1.5 on Thin OS 2405
Pair - update to 1.2.3
Dell Peripheral Manager - update to 1.7.3
qt-debuginfo - addressed in versions 4.8.7-55, 4.8.7-58
qt-debugsource - addressed in versions 4.8.7-55, 4.8.7-58
qt-devel - addressed in versions 4.8.7-55, 4.8.7-58
qt - addressed in versions 4.8.7-55, 4.8.7-58

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