Vulnerability · Published Sep 18, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-43114
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the qt6-base package (Ubuntu). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 19% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 80.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.16, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3 on Windows. When using the GDI font engine, if a corrupted font is loaded via QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont{FromData], then it can cause the application to crash because of missing length checks.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | qt6-base | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | qt6-base | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | qt6-base | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | qt6-base | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | qtbase-opensource-src | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | qtbase-opensource-src | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | qtbase-opensource-src | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | qtbase-opensource-src | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | qtbase-opensource-src | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | qtbase-opensource-src-gles | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | qtbase-opensource-src-gles | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | qtbase-opensource-src-gles | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | qtbase-opensource-src-gles | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | qtbase-opensource-src-gles | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43114 |