Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2410-1
19th November, 2014
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- 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 buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7904)
Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked
in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially
exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process.
(CVE-2014-7907)
An integer overflow was discovered in media. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7908)
An uninitialized memory read was discovered in Skia. 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.
(CVE-2014-7909)
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-2014-7910)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
-
oxideqt-codecs
1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
-
oxideqt-codecs-extra
1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
-
oxideqt-codecs
1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
-
oxideqt-codecs-extra
1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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.