Bug 1801369 (CVE-2015-9541) - CVE-2015-9541 qt: XML entity expansion vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2015-9541 qt: XML entity expansion vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-9541
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1801370 1822192 1822193 1837288
Blocks: 1801371
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-02-10 18:03 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-11-04 03:02 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Qt 5.15.0
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Last Closed: 2020-11-04 02:24:13 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4690 0 None None None 2020-11-04 03:02:51 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-10 18:03:51 UTC 
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.

References:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-47417
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-10 18:04:08 UTC 
Created qt5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1801370]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2020-04-07 16:49:37 UTC 
Upstream fix:
https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/commit/?id=f432c08882ffebe5074ea28de871559a98a4d094
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:24:13 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-9541
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 03:02:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4690 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4690
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