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Medium ALSA-2023:6967 4 CVEs

Moderate: qt5-qtbase security update

Published Nov 14, 2023 · 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.

Security Fix(es):

* qt: buffer over-read via a crafted reply from a DNS server (CVE-2023-33285)
* qt: allows remote attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by flaw in certificate validation (CVE-2023-34410)
* qtbase: buffer overflow in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-37369)
* qtbase: infinite loops in QXmlStreamReader (CVE-2023-38197)

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 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-common 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-devel 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-examples 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-gui 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-mysql 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-odbc 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-postgresql 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-private-devel 5.15.3-5.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-static 5.15.3-5.el8

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-33285
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34410
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-37369
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38197
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2209488
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2212747
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2222767
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2232173
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-6967.html