=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2582-1
May 06, 2015

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

- Ubuntu 15.04
- 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 use-after-free was discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. 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-2015-1243)

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-2015-1250)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2582-1
  CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1


Ubuntu 2582-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

May 6, 2015
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 15.04: liboxideqtcore0 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 Ubuntu 14.10: liboxideqtcore0 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: liboxideqtcore0 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2582-1

CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250

Severity
May 06, 2015

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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