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 weretricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denialof 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. [ more… ]