CVE-2019-18281

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18281
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-23 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-02-18 20:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn out-of-bounds memory access in the generateDirectionalRuns() function in qtextengine.cpp in Qt qtbase 5.11.x and 5.12.x before 5.12.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing an application via a text file containing many directional characters.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Qt Qtbase All All All All
Application Qt Qtbase All All All All
Application Qt Qtbase All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4556-1 qtbase-opensource-src DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Bug #1848784 “Crash in Qt 5.12.2” : Bugs : qtbase-opensource-src package : Ubuntu MISC bugs.launchpad.net Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/271889 MISC codereview.qt-project.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
QtCore: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-60) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4556-1] qtbase-opensource-src security update BUGTRAQ seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Qt Account Login MISC bugreports.qt.io Permissions Required
USN-4275-1: Qt vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671552 EulerOS Security Update for qt5-qtbase (EulerOS-SA-2022-1584)
  • 960739 Rocky Linux Security Update for qt5 (RLSA-2020:1665)
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