Am 23.10.19 um 09:29 schrieb Alex Murray: > > On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 17:32:58 +1030, Robert Loehning wrote: > >> Am 22.10.19 um 18:41 schrieb Dmitry Shachnev: >>> Hi again Robert, >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:14:01PM +0000, Robert Loehning wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> every application based on Qt will crash when opening a crafted plain >>>> text file. Could you please add the patch below to your builds to fix this? >>>> >>>> Thank you and have a nice weekend. >>> >>> Let me forward you a question I got on the bug: >>> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1848784/comments/1 >>> >>> This would appear to have security implications since I imagine if an >>> email >>> were sent to a KMail recipient which was crafted in this same way it would >>> crash KMail? If this is likely true a CVE should be requested from MITRE >>> via >>> https://cveform.mitre.org/ so that other distros etc can ensure they ship >>> this patch too. >>> >>> What do you think about this? >>> >>> -- >>> Dmitry Shachnev >>> >> >> Hi Dmitry, >> >> this is most probably right. I expect that it's possible to crash KMail >> in that way. With Quassel, it was already used ITW. >> >> I don't think I'm authorized to send you such a crafted file, but if you >> look closely at the test for the attached fix, you can probably figure >> it out yourself. >> >> I'm not aware of an existing CVE for this issue, though. > > FYI - I have just submitted a CVE application for this to MITRE so that > all distros can be notified of, and backport the fix as appropriate.
Wonderful! Thank you so much! Cheers, Robert -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
