USN-2582-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• oxide-qt - Web browser engine library for Qt (QML plugin)

Details

A use-after-free was discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed
render process. (CVE-2015-1243)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial
of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2015-1250)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2015-1243
• CVE-2015-1250