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Qt QUtf8Decoder Off-By-One Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA26811
Release Date: 2007-09-14
Popularity: 6,686 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Qt 3.x
Qt 4.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Qt, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the "QUtf8Decoder::toUnicode()" function ("QUtf8Codec::convertToUnicode()" in Qt 4.x) in codecs/qutfcodec.cpp. This can be exploited to cause a one-byte heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted unicode string.

The vulnerability is reported in Qt versions 3.x and 4.x.

NOTE: The vulnerability is reportedly not exploitable in Qt 4.x.

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