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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2410-1
November 19, 2014
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 14.10
– 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 buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7904)
Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked
in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially
exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process.
(CVE-2014-7907)
An integer overflow was discovered in media. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7908)
An uninitialized memory read was discovered in Skia. 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-2014-7909)
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 with the
privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2014-7910)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.10:
liboxideqtcore0 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
oxideqt-codecs 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
oxideqt-codecs 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
oxideqt-codecs-extra 1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2410-1
CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909,
CVE-2014-7910
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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