Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-10040

Title: Qt Qxmlsimplereader Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-10040.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 07, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.62%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-10040: Stack-based buffer overflow in QXmlSimpleReader in Qt 4.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a xml file with multiple nested open tags.

Impacted Vendors

qt 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/24/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95113 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409597 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/24/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95113 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409597

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns