CVE-2013-4549 (GCVE-0-2013-4549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-23 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
QXmlSimpleReader in Qt before 5.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/20… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/56166 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/56008 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C71010 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/04/24/qt-4-8-6… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2057-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C71368 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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2013-12-05 00:00
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