USN-3091-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
USN-3091-1: Oxide vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3091-1 7th October, 2016 oxide-qt vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: 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 A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a userwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via applicationcrash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5170) A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a userwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker couldpotentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via applicationcrash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5171) An issue was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to [ more… ]