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High ALSA-2026:65897 1 CVE

Important: qt5-qtbase security update

Published Sep 9, 2026 · 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: Qt: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds read in text codec handling (CVE-2026-9499)

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.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-common 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-devel 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-examples 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-gui 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-mysql 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-odbc 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-postgresql 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-private-devel 5.15.3-9.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 qt5-qtbase-static 5.15.3-9.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.3

    Out-of-bounds read in QTextCodec::codecForName() in Qt

    An out-of-bounds read (buffer over-read) vulnerability exists in QTextCodec::codecForName() in Qt. When the function is called with a QByteArray that is not NUL-terminated (for example, one created with QByteArray::fromRawData()), the codec-name matching rout…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9499
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2503641
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-65897.html