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Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04 LTS: USN-2735-1 Moderate: Oxide Qt Issues

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2015
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Numerous vulnerabilities addressed in Oxide for Ubuntu affecting web browsers and allowing possible security breaches.
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 the DOM tree could be corrupted during parsing in

some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially

crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass

same-origin restrictions or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-1291)

An issue was discovered in NavigatorServiceWorker::serviceWorker 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-2015-1292)

An issue 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 bypass same-origin restrictions.

(CVE-2015-1293)

A use-after-free was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to

opening a specially c...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue DoS Ubuntu Oxide web engine

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.9.1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.9.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2735-1

CVE-2015-1291, CVE-2015-1292, CVE-2015-1293, CVE-2015-1294,

CVE-2015-1299, CVE-2015-1300, CVE-2015-1301, CVE-2015-1332,

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September 08, 2015

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security advisory moderate security issue DoS Ubuntu Oxide web engine

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.9.1-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.9.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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