Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qt5-srpm-macros  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-QT5SRPMMACROS-1570721
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Jul 2015

Introduced: 24 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-9541  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-776  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qt5-srpm-macros package and not the qt5-srpm-macros package as distributed by RHEL.

Qt through 5.14 allows an exponential XML entity expansion attack via a crafted SVG document that is mishandled in QXmlStreamReader, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.