USN-2895-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2895-1

18th February, 2016

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.10
• 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

The DOM implementation in Chromium did not properly restrict frame-attach
operations from occurring during or after frame-detach operations. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2016-1623)

An integer underflow was discovered in Brotli. 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 application crash, or
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2016-1624)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:

liboxideqtcore0 1.12.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0 1.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2016-1623, CVE-2016-1624