Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-17507

An issue was discovered in Qt through 5.12.9, and 5.13.x through 5.15.x before 5.15.1. read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp has a buffer over-read.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2020-17507
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 09:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-17507

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Aug 2020, 18:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Qt through 5.12.9, and 5.13.x through 5.15.x before 5.15.1. read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp has a buffer over-read.

osv:CVE-2020-17507
Complete source record
{
  "id": "62b7ab7d17deab1da234d240596bc3b4f06e129cd5765fc385f816866a6b1676",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-17507",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-17507",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Qt through 5.12.9, and 5.13.x through 5.15.x before 5.15.1. read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp has a buffer over-read.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-17507",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-17507",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-17507"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/qt/qt5",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "e16b5baa08efe8cda43fae9d00d287d314770675"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "644f8b7006737a89bfa171fcc7df15a312d678d7"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "dd11f01de7416b650b58c13e18146533d764477c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.12.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.13.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "5.15.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v5.12.9",
            "v5.15.0-beta4",
            "v5.15.0-beta3",
            "v5.15.0-beta2",
            "v5.15.0-beta1",
            "v5.15.0-alpha1",
            "v5.12.0-beta3",
            "v5.12.0-beta2",
            "v5.12.0-beta1",
            "v5.12.0-alpha1",
            "v5.0.0-beta1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17507.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/qt/qtbase",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "823ed71e220ebde07970dd61c04bb47b01dd06c4"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "fc9ae22c88dd085c7c31599037132fc756feeb04"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "e4961b35deb202525d4711dbb14f8c2bb0bf5c26"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.12.9"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "5.13.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "5.15.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v5.12.9",
            "v5.15.0-beta4",
            "v5.15.0-beta3",
            "v5.15.0-beta2",
            "v5.15.0-beta1",
            "v5.15.0-alpha1",
            "v5.12.0-beta3",
            "v5.12.0-beta2",
            "v5.12.0-beta1",
            "v5.12.0-alpha1",
            "v5.0.0-beta2",
            "v5.0.0-beta1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17507.json",
            "vanir_signatures": [
              {
                "id": "CVE-2020-17507-edb2cdac",
                "digest": {
                  "threshold": 0.9,
                  "line_hashes": [
                    "242641743284928064626071892920657218794",
                    "106416120088075135311219627565149925684",
                    "6689681501335192734927767907587321295",
                    "249325656759426096807140923297702562064"
                  ]
                },
                "source": "https://github.com/qt/qtbase/commit/e4961b35deb202525d4711dbb14f8c2bb0bf5c26",
                "target": {
                  "file": "src/corelib/tools/qvector.h"
                },
                "deprecated": false,
                "signature_type": "Line",
                "signature_version": "v1"
              }
            ],
            "vanir_signatures_modified": "2026-10-24T14:50:56Z"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T14:50:56.885827472Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/426FCC6JNK4JUEX5QHJQDYQ6MUVQ3E6P/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NBPZVZNEYXGATTXM4WOE7OQ55VAKPVD6/",
        "https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/308496",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00023.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00024.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-04",
        "https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/308436",
        "https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/308495"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "31"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "31"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "32"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-17507",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 443836,
  "published_at": "2020-08-12T18:15:17.637+00:00"
}