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Secunia Advisory SA28228

Qt QSslSocket Certificate Verification Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA28228
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Release Date 2008-01-03
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Spoofing
Where From remote
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Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
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Software:
Qt 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-5965 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Qt, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the certificate validation in QSslSocket, which can be exploited to e.g. trick an application using QSslSocket into accepting spoofed certificates.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 4.3.0, 4.3.1, and 4.3.2.

Solution
Update to version 4.3.3 or apply patch:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-12-21.2182567220

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Subject: Qt QSslSocket Certificate Verification Vulnerability
 
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