CVE-2012-6093 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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/3b14dc93cf0ef06f1424d7d6319a1af4505faa5320284.729 http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/691e78e5061d4cbc0de212d23b06c5dffddf209820284.829 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/change42461