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Security Vulnerability in Linux Qt Toolkit Fixed

Publication:Linux InsiderDate:Aug 25 2004
Reporter:Elizabeth Millard

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Fixing the Qt flaw quickly was a priority, said Thomas Biege, a member of the SuSE security support and auditing team, in an interview with LinuxInsider. "Every application which is linked against the Qt3 library and used the vulnerable function of image handling can be crashed or exploited to execute arbitrary code by processing a malformed image," he said.


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