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Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10: USN-2476-1 Critical Oxide Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical vulnerabilities patched in Ubuntu USN-2476-1 for Oxide-qt impact various versions. Ensure you update immediately to protect against exploits.
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:

Several memory corruption bugs were discovered in ICU. 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-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7926)

A use-after-free was discovered in the IndexedDB implementation. 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 application

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

the program. (CVE-2014-7924)

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

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

attacker could potentially exploit this to cause...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update memory corruption Ubuntu Oxide renderer crash

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2476-1

CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7924, CVE-2014-7925, CVE-2014-7926,

CVE-2014-7927, CVE-2014-7928, CVE-2014-7929, CVE-2014-7930,

CVE-2014-7931, CVE-2014-7932, CVE-2014-7933, CVE-2014-7934,

CVE-2014-7937, CVE-2014-7938, CVE-2014-7940, CVE-2014-7942,

CVE-2014-7943, CVE-2014-7946, CVE-2014-7948, CVE-2015-1205,

CVE-2015-1346

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January 26, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update memory corruption Ubuntu Oxide renderer crash

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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