CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-38197

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Jul 13, 2023 | Modified: May 01, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3. There are infinite loops in recursive entity expansion.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Qt Qt * 5.15.15 (excluding)
Qt Qt 6.0.0 (including) 6.2.10 (excluding)
Qt Qt 6.3.0 (including) 6.5.3 (excluding)
Qt6-base Ubuntu bionic *
Qt6-base Ubuntu kinetic *
Qt6-base Ubuntu lunar *
Qt6-base Ubuntu mantic *
Qt6-base Ubuntu trusty *
Qt6-base Ubuntu xenial *
Qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu bionic *
Qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu kinetic *
Qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu lunar *
Qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu mantic *
Qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu trusty *
Qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat qt5-qtbase-0:5.15.3-5.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat qt5-qtbase-0:5.15.9-7.el9 *

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