USN-3133-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3133-1

1st December, 2016

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 security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial
of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.
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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2016-5202