Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2757-1
5th October, 2015
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 15.04
- 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
Two security issues were discovered in Blink and V8. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 15.04:
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.9.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
liboxideqtcore0
1.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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.