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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-1859

medium Nessus Plugin ID 218668

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - Multiple buffer overflows in plugins/imageformats/ico/qicohandler.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 ICO image. (CVE-2015-1859)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1859

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 218668

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2015_1859.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 7/29/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1859

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:phonon-backend-gstreamer, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-assistant, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-config, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-demos, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-devel-private, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-examples, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-odbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-qdbusviewer, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-qvfb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt-x11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:phonon-backend-gstreamer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-assistant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-config, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-demos, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel-private, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-examples, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-qdbusviewer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-qvfb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qt

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1859