SECURITY

USN-3236-1: Oxide vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3236-1 29th March, 2017 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 vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user weretricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, spoofapplication UI by causing the security status API or webview URL toindicate the wrong values, bypass security restrictions, cause a denialof service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2017-5029, CVE-2017-5030, CVE-2017-5031, CVE-2017-5033,CVE-2017-5035, CVE-2017-5037, CVE-2017-5040, CVE-2017-5041, CVE-2017-5044,CVE-2017-5045, CVE-2017-5046) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: liboxideqtcore0 1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: liboxideqtcore0 1.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Ubuntu [ more… ]

USN-3247-1: AppArmor vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3247-1 28th March, 2017 apparmor vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary AppArmor could remove the confinement from some programs. Software description apparmor – Linux security system Details Stéphane Graber discovered that AppArmor incorrectly unloaded some profileswhen restarted or upgraded, contrary to expected behavior. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: apparmor 2.10.95-4ubuntu5.3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: apparmor 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: apparmor 2.10.95-0ubuntu2.6~14.04.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: apparmor 2.7.102-0ubuntu3.11 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to makeall the necessary changes. A new utility, called aa-remove-unknown, was added to assist with profiles thatwould have [ more… ]