Ubuntu 16.10: USN-3180-1 Moderate Oxide XSS and Memory Issues

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February 8, 2017

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 or other UI components, bypass same origin restrictions or

other security restrictions, cause a denial of service via application

crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007,

CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012,

CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023,

CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026)

Topics Covered

security advisory XSS Ubuntu memory issue application crash Oxide webview spoofing

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.20.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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