Security Advisory SA26298 - Qt QTextEdit Error Message Handling Format String Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA26298

Qt QTextEdit Error Message Handling Format String Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA26298

Release Date

2007-08-01

Last Update

2007-08-13

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Software:

Qt 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-3388 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Qt, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error in QTextEdit when handling error messages. This can can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by e.g. causing an application linked against Qt to parse specially crafted text.

The vulnerability reportedly only affects Qt 3.x. Qt 4.x is not affected.

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits:
* Tim Brown, Portcullis Computer Security Ltd
* Dirk Mueller, KDE

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Original Advisory
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-07-27.7503755960

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