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: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.
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
from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2kJsSwr