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CVE-2013-4549

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2014-05-05 qt4-xml -- XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2013-4549
Phase Assigned(20130612)

Description

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.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [qt-announce] 20131205 [Announce] Qt Project Security Advisory: XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service
CONFIRM https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,71010
CONFIRM https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,71368
CONFIRM http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/04/24/qt-4-8-6-released/
FEDORA FEDORA-2014-5695
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0067
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0070
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0125
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0173
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0176
UBUNTU USN-2057-1
SECUNIA 56008
SECUNIA 56166