Advisories » MGASA-2021-0270

Updated qtwebsockets5 packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Jun 2021
Modification date: 23 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2018-21035

Description

In Qt through 5.14.1, the WebSocket implementation accepts up to 2GB for 
frames and 2GB for messages. Smaller limits cannot be configured. This makes 
it easier for attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption)
(CVE-2018-21035).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27560
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4690
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-21035

SRPMS

7/core

• qtwebsockets5-5.12.6-1.1.mga7