USN-3041-1: Oxide vulnerabilities
USN-3041-1: Oxide vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3041-1 5th August, 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 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 (application crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1705) It was discovered that the PPAPI implementation does not validate theorigin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process. A remote attackercould potentially exploit this to bypass sandbox protection mechanisms.(CVE-2016-1706) It was discovered that Blink does not prevent window creation by adeferred frame. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to bypasssame origin [ more… ]