The GIF decoder in QtGui in Qt before 5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via invalid width and height values in a GIF image.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-0190 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the versions of qt4 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 , qt3 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 and qt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 1.9 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qt | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | qt3 | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qt3 | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | qt | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | qt4 | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | qt | Fix deferred |
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