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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2320-1 Critical Oxide Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2014
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Ubuntu's security team warns of critical Oxide vulnerabilities leading to potential denial of service and information leakage risks, urging immediate updates and monitoring
Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Software Description:

- oxide-qt: Web browser engine library for Qt (QML plugin)

Details:

A use-after-free was discovered in the websockets implementation in Blink.

If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an

attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via

renderer crash. (CVE-2014-3165)

An issue was discovered in the Public Key Pinning implementation in

Chromium. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive

information. (CVE-2014-3166)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were

tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could

potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application

crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking

the program. (CVE-2014-3167)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu application crash web browser issue oxide

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2320-1

CVE-2014-3165, CVE-2014-3166, CVE-2014-3167, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/+bug/1356372

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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