Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2582-1
6th May, 2015
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu (vivid)
- Ubuntu 14.10
- 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
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 version:
- Ubuntu (vivid):
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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.