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Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2770-1 Critical: Oxide-QT Security Flaws

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2015
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A number of vital concerns in oxide-qt have been resolved to safeguard Ubuntu users from potential security vulnerabilities.
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 ContainerNode::parserInsertBefore in Blink would

incorrectly proceed with a DOM tree insertion 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.

(CVE-2015-6755)

A use-after-free was discovered in the service worker implementation 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 application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the

privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2015-6757)

It was discovered that Blink did not ensure that the origin of

LocalStorage resources are considered unique. If a user were tricked in to

opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Ubuntu update instructions security flaws exploit risk oxide-qt

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2770-1

CVE-2015-6755, CVE-2015-6757, CVE-2015-6759, CVE-2015-6761,

CVE-2015-6762, CVE-2015-6763, CVE-2015-7834

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October 20, 2015

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security advisory critical Ubuntu update instructions security flaws exploit risk oxide-qt

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.10.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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