qt4-x11, qtbase-opensource-src vulnerabilities

3 June 2015

qt4-x11, qtbase-opensource-src vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Qt could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description

• qt4-x11 - Qt 4 libraries
• qtbase-opensource-src - Qt 5 libraries

Details

Wolfgang Schenk discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0190)

Fabian Vogt discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed BMP images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-0295)

Richard Moore and Fabian Vogt discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed BMP images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted BMP image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1858)

Richard Moore and Fabian Vogt discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed ICO images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted ICO image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1859)

Richard Moore and Fabian Vogt discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain malformed GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1860)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04

libqt5gui5 - 5.4.1+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1

libqtgui4 - 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3~ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 14.10

libqt5gui5 - 5.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu9.1

libqtgui4 - 4:4.8.6+git49-gbc62005+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libqt5gui5 - 5.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu14.3

libqtgui4 - 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libqtgui4 - 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu4.9

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-0190
• CVE-2015-0295
• CVE-2015-1858
• CVE-2015-1859
• CVE-2015-1860