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).

References: [1] http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html

Dirk Mueller reported an off by one buffer overflow flaw in the way QT parses certain unicode strings.

To quote Dirk:

Ive found a off-by-one buffer overflow in QUtf8Decoder::toUnicode(). It is not exploitable with Qt 4.x or above because there is an additional QChar(0) being allocated in QString, however it is still a bug there, as the array returned by utf16() etc is no longer terminated properly.

src/network/ssl/qsslcertificate.cpp in Nokia Trolltech Qt 4.x does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

The QSslSocketBackendPrivate::transmit function in srcnetworksslqsslsocketopenssl.cpp in Qt 4.6.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed request.

A security flaw was found in the way QSharedMemory class implementation of the Qt toolkit created shared memory segments (they were created with world-readable and world-writeable permissions). A local attacker could use this flaw to read or alter content of particular shared memory segment, possibly leading to their ability to obtain sensitive information or influence behaviour of shared memory segment reader process.