openSUSE 10 Security Update : qt (qt-3050)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27411

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

qt wrongly accepts overly long UTF-8 sequences due to a bug in the UTF-8 decoder. This may lead to security problems unter certain circumstances. The bug for example allows for script tag injection in konqueror (CVE-2007-0242).

Solution

Update the affected qt packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27411

File Name: suse_qt-3050.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:qt-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0242