USN-513-1: Qt vulnerability

18 September 2007

Qt vulnerability

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Packages

Details

Dirk Mueller discovered that UTF8 strings could be made to cause a small
buffer overflow. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending specially
crafted strings to applications that use the Qt3 library for UTF8 processing,
potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with user privileges, or a
denial of service.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to
effect the necessary changes.

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