Digia Qt prior 4.6.0 GIF Decoder null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability was found in Digia Qt. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component GIF Decoder. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

The GIF decoder in QtGui in Qt before 5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via invalid width and height values in a GIF image.

The weakness was presented 05/08/2014 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.kde.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-0190 since 12/03/2013. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 74002 (Fedora 19 : mingw-qt-4.8.6-1.fc19 (2014-6028)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196129 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Qt4-x11, Qtbase-opensource-src Vulnerabilities (USN-2626-1)).

Upgrading to version 4.6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (92953) and Tenable (74002). See 74479, 75234, 75235 and 75236 for similar entries.

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Class: Null pointer dereference
CWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 74002
Nessus Name: Fedora 19 : mingw-qt-4.8.6-1.fc19 (2014-6028)
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OpenVAS ID: 867744
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for qt FEDORA-2014-5695
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Qt 4.6.0

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Advisory: USN-2626-1
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CVE: CVE-2014-0190 (🔍)
X-Force: 92953
Vulnerability Center: 44522 - Qt before 5.3 Remote DoS via Invalid Values in the GIF Decoder, Medium
SecurityFocus: 67087 - Qt QtGui GIF Image Handler Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Created: 03/25/2015 16:45
Updated: 03/21/2022 09:47
Changes: 03/25/2015 16:45 (67), 05/28/2017 03:03 (5), 03/21/2022 09:46 (3), 03/21/2022 09:47 (1)
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