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Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04 LTS USN-2895-1 Moderate: Oxide Issues

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2016
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Ubuntu 2895-2 addresses significant Metal flaws, encompassing essential safety issues and upgrade recommendations for users
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:

The DOM implementation in Chromium did not properly restrict frame-attach

operations from occurring during or after frame-detach operations. If a

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

could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.

(CVE-2016-1623)

An integer underflow was discovered in Brotli. 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-2016-1624)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service application crash ubuntu oxide web browser engine frame-attach

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.12.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2895-1

CVE-2016-1623, CVE-2016-1624

February 18, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service application crash ubuntu oxide web browser engine frame-attach

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.12.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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