Moderate: qt5-qtbase security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-33285   CVE-2023-34410   CVE-2023-37369   CVE-2023-38197  

Synopsis

Moderate: qt5-qtbase security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for qt5-qtbase is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

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 via a crafted reply from a DNS server (CVE-2023-33285)
  • qt: allows remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by flaw in certificate validation (CVE-2023-34410)
  • qtbase: buffer overflow in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-37369)
  • qtbase: infinite loops in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-38197)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from 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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 2209488 - CVE-2023-33285 qt: buffer over-read via a crafted reply from a DNS server
  • BZ - 2212747 - CVE-2023-34410 qt: allows remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by flaw in certificate validation
  • BZ - 2222767 - CVE-2023-38197 qtbase: infinite loops in QXmlStreamReader
  • BZ - 2232173 - CVE-2023-37369 qtbase: buffer overflow in QXmlStreamReader