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
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medium
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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)
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Fixed In Version: Qt 5.15.0
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An XML Entity Expansion flaw was found in the QT library. Applications that use QT to load untrusted images, for example, SVG images, or untrusted XML documents, may be vulnerable to this flaw. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service.
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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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