Moderate: qt5 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: qt5 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update 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

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qt5-qt3d (5.9.7), qt5-qtbase (5.9.7), qt5-qtcanvas3d (5.9.7), qt5-qtconnectivity (5.9.7), qt5-qtdeclarative (5.9.7), qt5-qtdoc (5.9.7), qt5-qtgraphicaleffects (5.9.7), qt5-qtimageformats (5.9.7), qt5-qtlocation (5.9.7), qt5-qtmultimedia (5.9.7), qt5-qtquickcontrols (5.9.7), qt5-qtquickcontrols2 (5.9.7), qt5-qtscript (5.9.7), qt5-qtsensors (5.9.7), qt5-qtserialbus (5.9.7), qt5-qtserialport (5.9.7), qt5-qtsvg (5.9.7), qt5-qttools (5.9.7), qt5-qttranslations (5.9.7), qt5-qtwayland (5.9.7), qt5-qtwebchannel (5.9.7), qt5-qtwebsockets (5.9.7), qt5-qtx11extras (5.9.7), qt5-qtxmlpatterns (5.9.7). (BZ#1564000, BZ#1564001, BZ#1564002, BZ#1564003, BZ#1564004, BZ#1564006, BZ#1564007, BZ#1564008, BZ#1564009, BZ#1564010, BZ#1564011, BZ#1564012, BZ#1564013, BZ#1564014, BZ#1564015, BZ#1564016, BZ#1564017, BZ#1564018, BZ#1564019, BZ#1564020, BZ#1564021, BZ#1564022, BZ#1564023, BZ#1564024)

Security Fix(es):

  • qt5-qtbase: Double free in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2018-15518)
  • qt5-qtsvg: Invalid parsing of malformed url reference resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-19869)
  • qt5-qtbase: QImage allocation failure in qgifhandler (CVE-2018-19870)
  • qt5-qtimageformats: QTgaFile CPU exhaustion (CVE-2018-19871)
  • qt5-qtbase: QBmpHandler segmentation fault on malformed BMP file (CVE-2018-19873)

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 7.7 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 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

CVEs

References