Out-of-Bounds Affecting qt/qtbase package, versions [5.11.0,5.11.3][5.12.0,5.12.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.37% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QTQTBASE-2366149
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-18281  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qt/qtbase to version 5.12.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An out-of-bounds memory access in the generateDirectionalRuns() function in qtextengine.cpp in Qt qtbase 5.11.x and 5.12.x before 5.12.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing an application via a text file containing many directional characters.

CVSS Base Scores

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