Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') Affecting qt5-qtwebsockets-devel-debuginfo package, versions <0:5.12.5-2.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-QT5QTWEBSOCKETSDEVELDEBUGINFO-3298666
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed24 Jan 2020

Introduced: 24 Jan 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 qt5-qtwebsockets-devel-debuginfo to version 0:5.12.5-2.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2020:4690.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qt5-qtwebsockets-devel-debuginfo package and not the qt5-qtwebsockets-devel-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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