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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2320-1
August 20, 2014
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– 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:
A use-after-free was discovered in the websockets implementation in Blink.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via
renderer crash. (CVE-2014-3165)
An issue was discovered in the Public Key Pinning implementation in
Chromium. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2014-3166)
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 cause a denial of service via application
crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
the program. (CVE-2014-3167)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0 1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
oxideqt-codecs 1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2320-1
CVE-2014-3165, CVE-2014-3166, CVE-2014-3167, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1356372
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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