USN-3180-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3180-1

8th February, 2017

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 16.10
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Software description

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

Details

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,
read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the
webview URL or other UI components, bypass same origin restrictions or
other security restrictions, cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5006, CVE-2017-5007,
CVE-2017-5008, CVE-2017-5009, CVE-2017-5010, CVE-2017-5011, CVE-2017-5012,
CVE-2017-5014, CVE-2017-5017, CVE-2017-5019, CVE-2017-5022, CVE-2017-5023,
CVE-2017-5024, CVE-2017-5025, CVE-2017-5026)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:
liboxideqtcore0

1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0

1.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0

1.20.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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.

References

CVE-2017-5006,

CVE-2017-5007,

CVE-2017-5008,

CVE-2017-5009,

CVE-2017-5010,

CVE-2017-5011,

CVE-2017-5012,

CVE-2017-5014,

CVE-2017-5017,

CVE-2017-5019,

CVE-2017-5022,

CVE-2017-5023,

CVE-2017-5024,

CVE-2017-5025,

CVE-2017-5026

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