Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-6093

Title: Qt Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-6093.

CWE Category CWE-310
Published Date Feb 24, 2013
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-6093: The QSslSocket::sslErrors function in Qt before 4.6.5, 4.7.x before 4.7.6, 4.8.x before 4.8.5, when using certain versions of openSSL, uses an "incompatible structure layout" that can read memory from the wrong location, which causes Qt to report an incorrect error when certificate validation fails and might cause users to make unsafe security decisions to accept a certificate.

Impacted Vendors

T
trolltech 1
Q
qt 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697582 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00086.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00089.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00014.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-January/000020.html http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/3b14dc93cf0ef06f1424d7d6319a1af4505faa53%20%284.7%29 http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/691e78e5061d4cbc0de212d23b06c5dffddf2098%20%284.8%29 http://secunia.com/advisories/52217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/04/6 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891955 https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C42461 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697582 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00086.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00089.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00014.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2013-January/000020.html http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/3b14dc93cf0ef06f1424d7d6319a1af4505faa53%20%284.7%29 http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/691e78e5061d4cbc0de212d23b06c5dffddf2098%20%284.8%29 http://secunia.com/advisories/52217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/04/6 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891955 https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change%2C42461
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-6093 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.