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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: USN-2326-1 Moderate: Oxide Use-After-Free Threat

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2014
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Addressed vulnerabilities in Oxide following USN-2326-1 impacting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which presented various exploitation paths.
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 SVG 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, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed

render process. (CVE-2014-3168)

A use-after-free was discovered in the DOM 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, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed

render process. (CVE-2014-3169)

A use-after-free was discovered in V8. 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 cr...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service Ubuntu use-after-free oxide

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2326-1

CVE-2014-3168, CVE-2014-3169, CVE-2014-3171, CVE-2014-3173,

CVE-2014-3174, CVE-2014-3175

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September 02, 2014

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security advisory moderate denial of service Ubuntu use-after-free oxide

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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