CVE-2015-1859

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in plugins/imageformats/ico/qicohandler.cpp in the QtBase module in Qt before 4.8.7 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ICO image.

Affected products

Digia Qt: through 4.8.6
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21, 22
Qt: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.2.1 (+2)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155424.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155927.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155962.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155976.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156727.html
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2015-April/000067.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74307
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74310
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2626-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-10
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155424.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155927.html

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