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Ubuntu 14.10 & 14.04 LTS USN-2410-1 Moderate: Oxide Buffer Overflow

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.. =========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2410-1 November 19, 2014 oxide-qt vulnerabilities ========================================================================= A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 14.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Oxide. Software Description: - oxide-qt: Web browser engine library for Qt (QML plugin) Details: A buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7904) Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7907) An integer overflow was discovered in media. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7908) An uninitialized memory read was discovered in Skia. 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 renderer crash. (CVE-2014-7909) Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2014-7910) Updateinstructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.10: liboxideqtcore0 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 oxideqt-codecs 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: liboxideqtcore0 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 oxideqt-codecs 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References: CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909, CVE-2014-7910 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 . Multiple vulnerabilities in Oxide resolved; features patches for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 effectively tackling numerous security threats.. Oxide Risks, Ubuntu 14.04 Updates, Ubuntu 14.10 Security, Buffer Overflow, Denial Of Service. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 19, 2014 Ubuntu