Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting qt5-qtwebengine package, versions <5.15.16-r12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE320-QT5QTWEBENGINE-8157695
  • published 2 Oct 2024
  • disclosed 30 Aug 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 qt5-qtwebengine to version 5.15.16-r12 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qt5-qtwebengine package and not the qt5-qtwebengine package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libexpat before 2.6.3. dtdCopy in xmlparse.c can have an integer overflow for nDefaultAtts on 32-bit platforms (where UINT_MAX equals SIZE_MAX).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

7.5 high
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SUSE

6.2 medium