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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-5455

🗓️ 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Linux/Unix hosts have unpatched vulnerability CVE-2025-5455 affecting certain Qt packages.

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  - An issue was found in the private API function qDecodeDataUrl() in QtCore, which is used in QTextDocument
    and QNetworkReply, and, potentially, in user code. If the function was called with malformed data, for
    example, an URL that contained a charset parameter that lacked a value (such as data:charset,), and Qt
    was built with assertions enabled, then it would hit an assertion, resulting in a denial of service
    (abort). This impacts Qt up to 5.15.18, 6.0.0->6.5.8, 6.6.0->6.8.3 and 6.9.0. This has been fixed in
    5.15.19, 6.5.9, 6.8.4 and 6.9.1. (CVE-2025-5455)

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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/06/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/08/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts");
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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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04 Jun 2026 00:00Current
5.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.7
CVSS 48.4
EPSS0.00385
SSVC
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