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Medium ALSA-2020:1665 3 CVEs

Moderate: qt5 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Apr 28, 2020 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The qt5-base packages contain base tools for string, xml, and network handling in Qt.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: qt5 (5.12.5), qt5-qt3d (5.12.5), qt5-qtbase (5.12.5), qt5-qtcanvas3d (5.12.5), qt5-qtconnectivity (5.12.5), qt5-qtdeclarative (5.12.5), qt5-qtdoc (5.12.5), qt5-qtgraphicaleffects (5.12.5), qt5-qtimageformats (5.12.5), qt5-qtlocation (5.12.5), qt5-qtmultimedia (5.12.5), qt5-qtquickcontrols (5.12.5), qt5-qtquickcontrols2 (5.12.5), qt5-qtscript (5.12.5), qt5-qtsensors (5.12.5), qt5-qtserialbus (5.12.5), qt5-qtserialport (5.12.5), qt5-qtsvg (5.12.5), qt5-qttools (5.12.5), qt5-qttranslations (5.12.5), qt5-qtwayland (5.12.5), qt5-qtwebchannel (5.12.5), qt5-qtwebsockets (5.12.5), qt5-qtx11extras (5.12.5), qt5-qtxmlpatterns (5.12.5), python-qt5 (5.13.1), sip (4.19.19). (BZ#1775603, BZ#1775604)

Security Fix(es):

* qt: Malformed PPM image causing division by zero and crash in qppmhandler.cpp (CVE-2018-19872)

* qt5-qtsvg: Invalid parsing of malformed url reference resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-19869)

* qt5-qtimageformats: QTgaFile CPU exhaustion (CVE-2018-19871)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 9

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 python3-qt5-devel 5.13.1-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-devel 5.12.5-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtdeclarative-static 5.12.5-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtdoc 5.12.5-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtquickcontrols2-devel 5.12.5-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qttranslations 5.12.5-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtwayland-devel 5.12.5-1.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-rpm-macros 5.12.5-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-srpm-macros 5.12.5-3.el8

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-19869
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-19871
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-19872