USN-2652-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2652-1

30th June, 2015

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 15.04
  • 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

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly consider the scheme when
determining whether a URL is associated with a WebUI SiteInstance. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1266)

It was discovered that Blink did not properly restrict the creation
context during creation of a DOM wrapper. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2015-1267, CVE-2015-1268)

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly canonicalize DNS hostnames
before comparing to HSTS or HPKP preload entries. An attacker could
potentially exploit this to bypass intended access restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1269)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
liboxideqtcore0

1.7.9-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
Ubuntu 14.10:
liboxideqtcore0

1.7.9-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0

1.7.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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-2015-1266,

CVE-2015-1267,

CVE-2015-1268,

CVE-2015-1269

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