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

Ubuntu Large Esm H500
Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2345-1
October 14, 2014

oxide-qt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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 specially crafted
website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2014-3188)

A use-after-free was discovered in the web workers implementation in
Chromium. 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 applicatin crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking the program. (CVE-2014-3194)

It was discovered that V8 did not correctly handle Javascript heap
allocations in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
steal sensitive information. (CVE-2014-3195)

It was discovered that Blink did not properly provide substitute data for
pages blocked by the XSS auditor. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafter website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
steal sensitive information. (CVE-2014-3197)

It was discovered that the wrap function for Event's in the V8 bindings
in Blink produced an erroneous result in some circumstances. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service by stopping a worker
process that was handling an Event object. (CVE-2014-3199)

Multiple security issues were discovered in V8. 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
renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7967)

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

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


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

ubuntu
Calendar Grey October 14, 2014
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
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

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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October 14, 2014

Package Information

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

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