Bug 173304 – x11-libs/qt utf8 decoder bug? (CVE-2007-0242 )

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172746
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2007-04-04 06:35:39 UTC]

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:075 
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/ 
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  Package : qt4 
  Date : April 3, 2007 
  Affected: 2007.0 
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  Problem Description: 
   
  Andreas Nolden discover a bug in qt4, where the UTF8 decoder does 
  not reject overlong sequences, which can cause "/../" injection or 
  (in the case of konqueror) a "<script>" tag injection. 
   
  Updated packages have been patched to address this issue. 
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 References: 
   
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0242 

qt3 is affected as well.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-04/0123.html

[Comment 1 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2007-04-04 06:36:04 UTC]

QT please advise.

[Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2007-04-04 06:41:30 UTC]

Woops we already have a bug for this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172746 ***