RHSA-2016:0258-1: Important: thunderbird security update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935

USN-2895-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2895-1

18th February, 2016

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 15.10
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Software description

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

Details

The DOM implementation in Chromium did not properly restrict frame-attach
operations from occurring during or after frame-detach operations. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2016-1623)

An integer underflow was discovered in Brotli. 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 application crash, or
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2016-1624)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
liboxideqtcore0

1.12.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0

1.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2016-1623,

CVE-2016-1624