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qt: information disclosure

Package(s):qt CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5624
Created:December 19, 2012 Updated:January 23, 2013
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla entry:

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way XMLHttpRequest object implementation in Qt, a software toolkit for developing applications, performed management of certain HTTP responses. Previous implementation allowed redirection from HTTP protocol to file schemas. Also the redirection handling was performed automatically by QML application and could not be disabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause QML application in an unauthorized way to read local file content by causing the HTTP response for the application to be a redirect to a file: URL (file scheme).

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-19759 2012-12-13
Fedora FEDORA-2012-19715 2012-12-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0143-1 2013-01-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0154-1 2013-01-23
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0157-1 2013-01-23
Ubuntu USN-1723-1 2013-02-14
Mageia MGASA-2013-0053 2013-02-16

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