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<glsa id="200710-28">
  <title>Qt: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    An off-by-one vulnerability has been discovered in Qt, possibly resulting
    in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">qt</product>
  <announced>October 25, 2007</announced>
  <revised>October 25, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>192472</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-libs/qt" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.3.8-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.3.8-r4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Qt is a cross-platform GUI framework, which is used e.g. by KDE.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Dirk Mueller from the KDE development team discovered a boundary error
    in file qutfcodec.cpp when processing Unicode strings.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send a specially crafted Unicode string to a
    vulnerable Qt application, possibly resulting in the remote execution
    of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
    application. Note that the boundary error is present but reported to be
    not exploitable in 4.x series.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Qt 3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4137">CVE-2007-4137</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:11:04 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:54:49 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:54:56 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>