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Ubuntu update for qt


Secunia ID

SA49895

CVE-ID

CVE-2010-5076, CVE-2011-3193, CVE-2011-3194

Release Date

12 Jul 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Spoofing

This covers various vulnerabilities where it is possible for malicious users or people to impersonate other users or systems.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for qt. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA41236
SA41537
SA46140

Solution

Apply updated packages.

-- Ubuntu 11.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.4

-- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.4

Original Advisory

USN-1504-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1504-1/