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CentOS 8 : qt5-qtbase (CESA-2023:6967)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 185628

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2023:6967 advisory.

 - An issue was discovered in Qt 5.x before 5.15.14, 6.x before 6.2.9, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.1.
 QDnsLookup has a buffer over-read via a crafted reply from a DNS server. (CVE-2023-33285)

 - An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.9, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.2.
 Certificate validation for TLS does not always consider whether the root of a chain is a configured CA certificate. (CVE-2023-34410)

 - In Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.9, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.2, there can be an application crash in QXmlStreamReader via a crafted XML string that triggers a situation in which a prefix is greater than a length. (CVE-2023-37369)

 - An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3.
 There are infinite loops in recursive entity expansion. (CVE-2023-38197)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6967

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 185628

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2023-6967.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2023

Updated: 11/14/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34410

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-examples, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-gui, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-odbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt5-qtbase-static

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33285, CVE-2023-34410, CVE-2023-37369, CVE-2023-38197

RHSA: 2023:6967