CVE-2023-38197

NameCVE-2023-38197
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3539-1, DLA-3805-1, ELA-1083-1, ELA-1239-1, ELA-929-1
Debian Bugs1041104, 1041105, 1041106

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qt4-x11 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u5fixed
stretch (security)4:4.8.7+dfsg-11+deb9u3vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch4:4.8.7+dfsg-11+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u2fixed
qt6-base (PTS)bookworm6.4.2+dfsg-10vulnerable
sid, trixie6.7.2+dfsg-5fixed
qtbase-opensource-src (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)5.3.2+dfsg-4+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security)5.7.1+dfsg-3+deb9u3vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch5.7.1+dfsg-3+deb9u5fixed
buster, buster (lts)5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u7fixed
buster (security)5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u6vulnerable
bullseye5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1fixed
bookworm5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie5.15.15+dfsg-2fixed
qtbase-opensource-src-gles (PTS)bullseye5.15.2+dfsg-4vulnerable
bookworm5.15.8+dfsg-3vulnerable
sid, trixie5.15.15+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qt4-x11sourcejessie4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u5ELA-929-1
qt4-x11sourcestretch4:4.8.7+dfsg-11+deb9u4ELA-929-1
qt4-x11sourcebuster4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u2DLA-3539-1
qt4-x11source(unstable)(unfixed)
qt6-basesource(unstable)6.6.2+dfsg-81041104
qtbase-opensource-srcsourcejessie5.3.2+dfsg-4+deb8u7ELA-1239-1
qtbase-opensource-srcsourcestretch5.7.1+dfsg-3+deb9u5ELA-1239-1
qtbase-opensource-srcsourcebuster5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u7ELA-1239-1
qtbase-opensource-srcsourcebullseye5.15.2+dfsg-9+deb11u1
qtbase-opensource-srcsourcebookworm5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u1
qtbase-opensource-srcsource(unstable)5.15.10+dfsg-31041105
qtbase-opensource-src-glessource(unstable)5.15.10+dfsg-31041106

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)

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