| Name | CVE-2023-38197 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3. There are infinite loops in recursive entity expansion. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3539-1, DLA-3805-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1041104, 1041105, 1041106 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qt6-base (PTS) | bookworm | 6.4.2+dfsg-10 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 6.8.2+dfsg-6 | fixed |
| qtbase-opensource-src (PTS) | bullseye | 5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.15.15+dfsg-5 | fixed |
| qtbase-opensource-src-gles (PTS) | bullseye | 5.15.2+dfsg-4 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 5.15.8+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 5.15.15+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - qt6-base <ignored> (Minor issue, too intrusive to backport to 6.4)
[bookworm] - qtbase-opensource-src-gles <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - qtbase-opensource-src-gles <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-qxmlstreamreader-1
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/488960
https://github.com/qt/qtbase/commit/c4301be7d5f94852e1b17f2c2989d5ca807855d4 (v6.7.0-beta1)
https://github.com/qt/qtbase/commit/b35f5a187d82cdb0c13ef88b506e318f3b793adc (v6.6.0-beta3)