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Ubuntu 14.10 & 14.04 LTS USN-2410-1 Moderate: Oxide Buffer Overflow

Ubuntu Large Esm H500
Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2410-1
November 19, 2014

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

- Ubuntu 14.10
- 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:

A buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7904)

Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked
in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7907)

An integer overflow was discovered in media. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7908)

An uninitialized memory read was discovered in Skia. 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-2014-7909)

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-2014-7910)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
  
  CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909,
  CVE-2014-7910

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1


Ubuntu 14.10 & 14.04 LTS USN-2410-1 Moderate: Oxide Buffer Overflow

ubuntu
Calendar Grey November 19, 2014
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities in Oxide resolved; features patches for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 effectively tackling numerous security threats.
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 14.10: liboxideqtcore0 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 oxideqt-codecs 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: liboxideqtcore0 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 oxideqt-codecs 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909,

CVE-2014-7910

November 19, 2014

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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