PT-2017-7716 · Qt+1 · Qt+1

Martin Prpič · Published 2017-03-07 · Updated 2018-07-06 · CVE-2016-10040

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qt version 4.8.5

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue exists in the QXmlSimpleReader component, allowing remote attackers to cause an application crash by providing a specially crafted XML file containing multiple nested open tags.

Recommendations For Qt version 4.8.5, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as using a specially crafted XML file can cause an application crash. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10040

MGASA-2018-0284

SUSE-SU-2018:1902-1

SUSE-SU-2018_1902-1

Affected Products

Qt

Suse

References · 24

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409597 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1902-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/MMPQK37WEHT2KHWYTH4WNIAWNFKBUZ3P · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10040 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0284 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0284.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10040 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10040 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/24/1 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/964458 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/982826 · Note