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

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CVE-2017-5026