PT-2017-7716

CVE-2016-10040

Published

2017-03-07

Updated

2018-07-06

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qt version 4.8.5

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue exists in the QXmlSimpleReader component, allowing remote attackers to cause an application crash by providing a specially crafted XML file containing multiple nested open tags.

Recommendations For Qt version 4.8.5, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as using a specially crafted XML file can cause an application crash. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Martin Prpič

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Related identifiers

CVE-2016-10040

MGASA-2018-0284