[Qt 3] Potential vulnerability in QTextEdit

Bug #129934 reported by disabled.user
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qt-x11-free (Ubuntu)
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Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Affects:
Qt 3.3.8

References:
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-07-27.7503755960

Quote:
"Qt 3 has a potential vulnerability in QTextEdit, which might cause remote execution when parsing maliciously crafted text from an unknown source. This problem is not present in any version of Qt 4. To solve the issue, apply this patch.":
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/170529.diff

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disabled.user (disabled.user-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Currently publishing security update (USN-496-1).

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