CVE-2007-0242

QT UTF8 improper character expansion

Published Apr 3, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The UTF-8 decoder in codecs/qutfcodec.cpp in Qt 3.3.8 and 4.2.3 does not reject long UTF-8 sequences as required by the standard, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) and directory traversal attacks via long sequences that decode to dangerous metacharacters.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1292-1 New qt4-x11 packages fix cross-site scripting vulnerability
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-0244 The UTF-8 decoder in codecs/qutfcodec.cpp in Qt 3.3.8 and 4.2.3 does not reject long UTF-8 sequences as required by the standard, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) and directory traversal attacks via long sequences that decode to dangerous metacharacters.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-452-1 KDE library vulnerability
References
Link Providers
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-703.shtml cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1324.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24699 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24705 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24726 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24727 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24759 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24797 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24847 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25263 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26804 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26857 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27108 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27275 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/46117 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.348591 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-424.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/39ea4b325a7da742cb8b6995fa585b14.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/fc79b7f48d739f9c803a24ddad933384.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1292 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:074 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:075 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.nabble.com/Bug-417390:-CVE-2007-0242%2C--Qt-UTF-8-overlong-sequence-decoding-vulnerability-t3506065.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0883.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0909.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23269 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-03-30.9172215350 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-452-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1212 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33397 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1202 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0242 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11510 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0242 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 12:12 PM
Reserved
Jan 16, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 3, 2007, 4:19 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:35 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Mar 29, 2007, 12:00 AM