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CVE-2015-0295 json

The BMP decoder in QtGui in QT before 5.5 does not properly calculate the masks used to extract the color components, which allows remote a…

published 2015-03-25 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-0308

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The BMP decoder in QtGui in QT before 5.5 does not properly calculate the masks used to extract the color components, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and crash) via a crafted BMP file.

Patch / fix

  • qtbase-opensource-src Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.3.2+dfsg-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0295

  • qt4-x11 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1
  • qtbase-opensource-src Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu14.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0295

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libqt5-qtbase SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 5.3.1-4.4.2
  • libqt4 SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +2 more 4.8.6-4.2
  • libqt4-sql-plugins SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +2 more 4.8.6-4.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1383-1SUSE-SU-2015:1359-1

  • qt3 openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.3.8c-140.6
  • libqt5-qtbase openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.7.0-2.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10287-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10456-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-0295 updated cvss 4.3

QT: BMP image handler crash

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 qt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 qt, qt4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qt, qt3, qt-x11, qt-odbc, qt-demos, qt-mysql, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qt, qt3, qt-x11, qt-odbc, qt-qvfb, qt-demos, +12 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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