| 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 |
| Debian Bugs | 1041104, 1041105, 1041106 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qt4-x11 (PTS) | buster | 4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u2 | fixed |
| qt6-base (PTS) | bookworm | 6.4.2+dfsg-10 | vulnerable |
| trixie, sid | 6.4.2+dfsg-18 | vulnerable |
| qtbase-opensource-src (PTS) | buster | 5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u5 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 5.15.2+dfsg-9 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 5.15.8+dfsg-11 | vulnerable |
| trixie, sid | 5.15.10+dfsg-3 | fixed |
| qtbase-opensource-src-gles (PTS) | bullseye | 5.15.2+dfsg-4 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 5.15.8+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| trixie, sid | 5.15.10+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - qt6-base <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - qtbase-opensource-src-gles <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - qtbase-opensource-src-gles <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - qtbase-opensource-src <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - qtbase-opensource-src <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - qtbase-opensource-src <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-qxmlstreamreader-1
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/488960