RHSA-2020:5021 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: qt and qt5-qtbase security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 10, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for qt and qt5-qtbase is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The qt packages contain a software toolkit that simplifies the task of writing and maintaining Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications for the X Window System.
Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The qt5-base packages contain base tools for string, xml, and network handling in Qt.
Security Fix(es):
- qt: buffer over-read in read_xbm_body in gui/image/qxbmhandler.cpp (CVE-2020-17507)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.