CVE-2015-1858: digia qt

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-1858 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in digia qt. EPSS estimates a 7.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 12-05-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in gui/image/qbmphandler.cpp in the QtBase module in Qt before 4.8.7 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.