[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: qt3-3.3.8b-63.fc21
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-6661
2015-04-22 16:59:06
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Name : qt3
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 3.3.8b
Release : 63.fc21
URL : http://www.troll.no
Summary : The shared library for the Qt 3 GUI toolkit
Description :
Qt is a GUI software toolkit which simplifies the task of writing and
maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications
for the X Window System.
Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented.
This package contains the shared library needed to run Qt 3
applications, as well as the README files for Qt 3.
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Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2015-1860, a buffer overflow when loading some specific invalid GIF
image files, which could be exploited for denial of service (application crash) and
possibly even arbitrary code execution attacks. The security patch is backported from Qt
4.
(Please note that Qt 3 is NOT vulnerable to the simultaneously published issues
CVE-2015-1858 and CVE-2015-1859.)
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Apr 21 2015 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 3.3.8b-63
- backport CVE-2015-1860 (GIF handler buffer overflow, #1210675) fix from Qt 4
* Sat Feb 28 2015 Kevin Kofler <Kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org> - 3.3.8b-62
- backport CVE-2015-0295 (BMP image handler DoS, #1197275) fix from Qt 4
* Fri Feb 27 2015 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> 3.3.8b-61
- rebuild (gcc5)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1210675 - CVE-2015-1860 qt: segmentation fault in qgifhandler.cpp
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210675
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update qt3' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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