CVE-2014-0190

medium

Published 2014-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

The GIF decoder in QtGui in Qt before 5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via invalid width and height values in a GIF image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
20	Affected	—
19	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.1	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.04	Affected	—
14.10	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
qt	qt	`{"endExcluding":"5.3.0"}`	`5.3.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.