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CVE-2018-19873

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-12-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.11.3. QBmpHandler has a buffer overflow via BMP data.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• openSUSE Backports: sle-15-sp1, sle-15-sp2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2, 42.3
• Qt: through 5.5.1; from 5.7.0 through 5.8.0; from 5.10.0 before 5.11.3 — fixed in 5.11.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Qt 5.11.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-12/msg00066.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00057.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00071.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00073.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00090.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2135
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3390
• https://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/12/04/qt-5-11-3-released-important-security-updates/
• https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/238749/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00004.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00014.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00023.html

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