Bug 1409597 (CVE-2016-10040)

Summary:	CVE-2016-10040 qt: stack overflow in QXmlSimpleReader
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dkholia, jgrulich, slawomir
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A stack overflow flaw was found in the way Qt parsed XML input with several nested opening tags. An application using Qt's QXmlSimpleReader to parse specially crafted XML input could crash.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2017-06-08 05:26:17 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1409598, 1409599, 1409600, 1409601, 1409602, 1409603, 1409604
Bug Blocks:	1409605

Description Martin Prpič 2017-01-02 15:16:37 UTC

A stack overflow (stack exhaustion) flaw was found in the way Qt parsed XML input with several nested opening tags. An application using Qt's QXmlSimpleReader to parse specially crafted XML input could crash.

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2017-01-02 15:16:44 UTC

External References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/745

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2017-01-02 15:17:39 UTC

Created mingw-qt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1409604]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1409601]


Created mingw-qt5-qtbase tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1409599]


Created qt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1409602]


Created qt3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1409603]


Created qt5-qtbase tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1409598]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1409600]

Comment 3 Dhiru Kholia 2017-05-26 09:29:15 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2018-06-09 19:46:49 UTC

qt3-3.3.8b-74.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.