CVE-2007-0242

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Qt: 3.3.8, 4.2.3

References

http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-703.shtml
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1324.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24699
http://secunia.com/advisories/24705
http://secunia.com/advisories/24726
http://secunia.com/advisories/24727
http://secunia.com/advisories/24759
http://secunia.com/advisories/24797
http://secunia.com/advisories/24847
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
http://secunia.com/advisories/25263

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