USN-3015-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

USN-3015-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3015-1

30th June, 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

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.
(CVE-2016-1704)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0

1.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 15.10:

liboxideqtcore0

1.15.8-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0

1.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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.

References

CVE-2016-1704

Source: USN-3015-1: Oxide vulnerabilities