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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3194: QtGui: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3194: QtGui: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/15/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in the TIFF reader in gui/image/qtiffhandler.cpp in Qt 4.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the TIFFTAG_SAMPLESPERPIXEL tag in a greyscale TIFF image with multiple samples per pixel.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-qt-gui

References

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