Moderate: qt and qt5-qtbase security update

Synopsis

Moderate: qt and qt5-qtbase security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for qt and qt5-qtbase is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The qt packages contain a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications for the X Window System.

Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The qt5-base packages contain base tools for string, xml, and network handling in Qt.

Security Fix(es):

• qt: buffer over-read in read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp (CVE-2020-17507)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1868532 - CVE-2020-17507 qt: buffer over-read in read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp

CVEs

• CVE-2020-17507

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate