USN-2960-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
USN-2960-1: Oxide vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2960-1 18th May, 2016 oxide-qt vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Oxide. Software description oxide-qt – Web browser engine for Qt (QML plugin) Details An out of bounds write was discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentiallyexploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash, or executearbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1660) It was discovered that Blink assumes that a frame which passes same-originchecks is local in some cases. If a user were tricked in to opening aspecially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this tocause a denial of service via renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2016-1661) A use-after-free was discovered in [ more… ]