[Development] [Announce] Qt Project Security Advisory - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Qt Image Format Handling

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Apr 22 03:04:43 CEST 2015


On Wednesday 22 April 2015 02:14:47 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > CVE-2015-1860 GIF vulnerability
> 
> Qt 3 appears to be VULNERABLE to this issue. I backported the fix from Qt 4:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qt3.git/plain/qt-x11-free-3.3.8b-CVE-201
> 5-1860.patch
> 
> Please note that Qt 3 is NOT supported by the Qt Project anymore. The above
> backported patch (CVE-2015-1860) and statements of non-vulnerability
> (CVE-2015-1858/1859) are user-contributed (by me, a volunteer Fedora
> packager) on a purely as-is basis.
> 
> I hope this helps,
>         Kevin Kofler

Thanks Kevin, the patch is useful.

Richard, can you relay Kevin's patch to the distro security announcements too? 
They may find it useful.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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