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Ubuntu 15.04: USN-2570-1 Critical: Oxide Security Issues and Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2571-1 outlines various vulnerabilities in the Oxide framework and offers essential steps for implementing updates.
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:

An issue was discovered in the HTML parser in Blink. If a user were

tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could

potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.

(CVE-2015-1235)

An issue was discovered in the Web Audio API implementation in Blink. If

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

could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.

(CVE-2015-1236)

A use-after-free was discovered 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 renderer crash, or execute arbitrary

code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2015-1237)

An out-of-bounds write was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in

to opening a sp...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.6.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.6.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.6.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs                  1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  oxideqt-codecs-extra            1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2570-1

CVE-2015-1235, CVE-2015-1236, CVE-2015-1237, CVE-2015-1238,

CVE-2015-1240, CVE-2015-1241, CVE-2015-1242, CVE-2015-1244,

CVE-2015-1246, CVE-2015-1249, CVE-2015-1321, CVE-2015-3333

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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