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Ubuntu 16.10: USN-3113-1 Critical: Oxide Weaknesses Disclosed

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2016
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Oxide vulnerabilities threaten various Ubuntu versions. Critical patches for CVE-2023-12345 and others are essential for system security and integrity
Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Software Description:

- oxide-qt: Web browser engine for Qt (QML plugin)

Details:

It was discovered that a long running unload handler could cause an

incognito profile to be reused in some circumstances. If a user were

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

potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-1586)

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user

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

potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,

spoof an application's URL bar, obtain sensitive information, cause a

denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-5186,

CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5188, CVE-2016-5189, CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5194)

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.18.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3113-1

CVE-2016-1586, CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5185,

CVE-2016-5186, CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5188, CVE-2016-5189,

CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5194

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.18.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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