USN-3133-1: Oxide vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3133-1 1st December, 2016 oxide-qt vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Oxide. Software description oxide-qt – Web browser engine for Qt (QML plugin) Details Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a userwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denialof service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2016-5198, CVE-2016-5200, CVE-2016-5202) A heap-corruption issue was discovered in FFmpeg. If a user were trickedin to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentiallyexploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, orexecute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5199) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the [ more… ]