Summary
The remote host is missing an update to qt-copy
announced via advisory DSA 542-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20542-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in recent versions of Qt, a commonly used graphic widget set, used in KDE for example. The first problem allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, while the other two only seem to pose a denial of service danger. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
CVE-2004-0691:
Chris Evans has discovered a heap-based overflow when handling 8-bit RLE encoded BMP files.
CVE-2004-0692:
Marcus Meissner has discovered a crash condition in the XPM handling code, which is not yet fixed in Qt 3.3.
CVE-2004-0693:
Marcus Meissner has discovered a crash condition in the GIF handling code, which is not yet fixed in Qt 3.3.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3-20020329-1woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-4 of qt-x11-free.
We recommend that you upgrade your qt packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0691, CVE-2004-0692, CVE-2004-0693 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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