CVE-2012-6093 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2012-6093?

CVE-2012-6093 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 24 Feb 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6093?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Qt Qt.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6093?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-6093 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-6093 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6093 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8vmr-c9ff-vrfh.