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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5965 Detail

Description

QSslSocket in Trolltech Qt 4.3.0 through 4.3.2 does not properly verify SSL certificates, which might make it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid server certificate for a spoofed service, or trick a service into accepting an invalid client certificate for a user.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/08/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of qt or qt4 packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/28228 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28321 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28999 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2007-12-21.2182567220 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:042 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27112 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-579-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0018 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427232 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00131.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-5965
NVD Published Date:
01/07/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.