USN-3113-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
USN-3113-1: Oxide vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3113-1 2nd November, 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 It was discovered that a long running unload handler could cause anincognito profile to be reused in some circumstances. If a user weretricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-1586) Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a userwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,spoof an application's URL bar, obtain sensitive information, cause adenial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5185, [ more… ]