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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2345-1 Critical: Oxide Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2014
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Tackling vulnerabilities in Oxide framework on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with robust solutions to avert attacks and system failures.
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:

Multiple use-after-free issues were discovered in Blink. 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 renderer crash,

or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render

process. (CVE-2014-3178, CVE-2014-3190, CVE-2014-3191, CVE-2014-3192)

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 read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of

service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2014-3179,

CVE-2014-3200)

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly handle the interaction of

IPC and V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a...

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security advisory denial of service code execution critical threat update instructions ubuntu oxide-qt

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

CVE-2014-3178, CVE-2014-3179, CVE-2014-3188, CVE-2014-3190,

CVE-2014-3191, CVE-2014-3192, CVE-2014-3194, CVE-2014-3195,

CVE-2014-3197, CVE-2014-3199, CVE-2014-3200, CVE-2014-7967

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security advisory denial of service code execution critical threat update instructions ubuntu oxide-qt

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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