CVE-2012-5624 Information

Description

The XMLHttpRequest object in Qt before 4.8.4 enables http redirection to the file scheme which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to force the read of arbitrary local files and possibly obtain sensitive information via a file: URL to a QML application.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00034.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00045.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00048.html http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000014.html http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/96311def2466dd44de64d77a1c815b22fbf68f71 http://secunia.com/advisories/52217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/04/8 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1723-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883415 https://codereview.qt-project.org/change40034