[USN-3015-1] Oxide vulnerabilities

[Chris Coulson]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3015-1
June 30, 2016

oxide-qt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 15.10
- 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 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.
(CVE-2016-1704)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 15.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3015-1
  CVE-2016-1704

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.15.8-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1


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