USN-3015-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Publication date

30 June 2016

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.


Packages

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

Details

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.
(CVE-2016-1704)

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.
(CVE-2016-1704)

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
16.04 xenial liboxideqtcore0 –  1.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
15.10 wily liboxideqtcore0 –  1.15.8-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
14.04 trusty liboxideqtcore0 –  1.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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