CVE-2016-10040: Qt Qxmlsimplereader

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in QXmlSimpleReader in Qt 4.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a xml file with multiple nested open tags.

Affected products

• Qt Qxmlsimplereader: version 4.8.5 only

Published 2017-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.