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Ubuntu 14.10 & 14.04 LTS USN-2556-1 Critical Oxide Threats

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Various vulnerabilities within Oxide concern Ubuntu users, necessitating swift updates to protect their systems effectively.
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:

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly handle the interaction

of IPC, the gamepad API 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-2015-1233)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GPU service. 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. (CVE-2015-1234)

It was discovered that Oxide did not correctly manage the lifetime of

BrowserContext, resulting in a potential use-after-free 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 via app...

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security advisory denial of service critical arbitrary code execution Ubuntu oxide-qt

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2556-1

CVE-2015-1233, CVE-2015-1234, CVE-2015-1317, https://bugs.launchpad.net/oxide/+bug/1431484

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security advisory denial of service critical arbitrary code execution Ubuntu oxide-qt

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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