Name: CVE-2016-10040: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-10040, CWE-119, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.01068

Stack-based buffer overflow in QXmlSimpleReader in Qt 4.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a xml file with multiple nested open tags.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade qtbase-opensource-src	Jul 30, 2024	Mar 7, 2017
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Dec 24, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade libqt4-sql-unixODBC-32bitUpgrade libqt4-devel-docUpgrade libqt4-sql-32bitUpgrade libqt4-sql-sqlite-32bitUpgrade libqt4-x11Upgrade libqt4-qt3supportUpgrade libqt4-x11-32bitUpgrade libqt4-sql-mysql-32bitUpgrade libqt4-sql-postgresqlUpgrade libqt4-linguistUpgrade libqt4-32bitUpgrade libqt4-devel-doc-dataUpgrade qt4-x11-toolsUpgrade qt4-qtscriptUpgrade libqt4Upgrade libqt4-sql-sqliteUpgrade libQtWebKit4Upgrade libQtWebKit-develUpgrade libqt4-private-headers-develUpgrade libqt4-sql-unixODBCUpgrade libQtWebKit4-32bitUpgrade libqt4-sql-postgresql-32bitUpgrade libqt4-sql-mysqlUpgrade libqt4-sqlUpgrade libqca2Upgrade libqca2-develUpgrade libqt4-qt3support-32bitUpgrade libqca2-32bitUpgrade libqt4-devel	Jul 8, 2018	Mar 7, 2017
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Mar 7, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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