USN-2582-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
6 May 2015
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.04
- 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 use-after-free was discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. 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, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2015-1243)
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-2015-1250)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 15.04
- liboxideqtcore0 - 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.10
- liboxideqtcore0 - 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- liboxideqtcore0 - 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.