Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1859

Title: Digia Qt RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-1859.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date May 12, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1859: Multiple buffer overflows in plugins/imageformats/ico/qicohandler.cpp in the QtBase module in Qt before 4.8.7 and 5.x before 5.4.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ICO image.

Impacted Vendors

trolltech 1

qt 1

digia 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155424.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155927.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155962.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155976.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156727.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2015-April/000067.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74307 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74310 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2626-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-10 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155424.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155927.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155962.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155976.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156727.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2015-April/000067.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74307 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74310 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2626-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-10

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-1859 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 12, 2015 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:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.