A vulnerability has been identified in Trolltech Qt, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a format string error in the way QTextEdit [widgets/qtextedit.cpp] constructs error messages, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code or crash an application linked against a vulnerable library.
Note : Other format string vulnerabilities have been identified in the "sql/qdatatable.cpp", "sql/qsqldatabase.cpp", "sql/qsqlindex.cpp", "sql/qsqlrecord.cpp", "tools/qglobal.cpp" and "xml/qsvgdevice.cpp" files.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Tim Brown (Portcullis Computer Security) and Dirk Mueller (KDE).
ChangeLog
2007-08-01 : Initial release
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