1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2905-1

USN-2905-1: Oxide vulnerability

Publication date

23 February 2016

Overview

Oxide could be made to bypass same-origin restrictions.

Releases

Packages

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

Details

A security issue was discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to bypass same-origin restrictions or a sandbox protection mechanism.
(CVE-2016-1629)

A security issue was discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to bypass same-origin restrictions or a sandbox protection mechanism.
(CVE-2016-1629)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
15.10 wily liboxideqtcore0 –  1.12.7-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
14.04 trusty liboxideqtcore0 –  1.12.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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