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Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04, 14.04: USN-3153-1 Critical Oxide Issues

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2016
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Important security flaws in Critical Oxide have been resolved for Ubuntu versions 16.10, 16.04, and 14.04. It's essential to update your systems without delay to maintain security.
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:

Multiple 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,

read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the

webview URL, bypass same origin restrictions, cause a denial of service

via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5204,

CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5212,

CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5226,

CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9652)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in

to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially

exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service

via application crash, or execu...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update XSS DoS Ubuntu system patch Oxide

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3153-1

CVE-2016-5204, CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208,

CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5212, CVE-2016-5213, CVE-2016-5215,

CVE-2016-5219, CVE-2016-5221, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5224,

CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5226, CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9651,

CVE-2016-9652

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December 09, 2016

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update XSS DoS Ubuntu system patch Oxide

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.19.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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