USN-2757-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Publication date

5 October 2015

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.


Packages

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

Details

Two security issues were discovered in Blink and V8. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304)

Two security issues were discovered in Blink and V8. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304)

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
15.04 vivid liboxideqtcore0 –  1.9.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
14.04 trusty liboxideqtcore0 –  1.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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