Use After Free Affecting qt5-qttools-libs-designer package, versions <0:5.11.1-9.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.19% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-QT5QTTOOLSLIBSDESIGNER-4377313
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2018

Introduced: 13 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15518  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 qt5-qttools-libs-designer to version 0:5.11.1-9.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3390.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qt5-qttools-libs-designer package and not the qt5-qttools-libs-designer package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

QXmlStream in Qt 5.x before 5.11.3 has a double-free or corruption during parsing of a specially crafted illegal XML document.