Qt applications could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong discovered a flaw in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol when it is used with data compression. If an attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. This update disables TLS data compression in Qt by default.
8 November 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Qt applications could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong discovered a flaw in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol when it is used with data compression. If an attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. This update disables TLS data compression in Qt by default.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any KDE sessions or applications linked against Qt to make all the necessary changes.
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