USN-3015-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• oxide-qt - Web browser engine for Qt (QML plugin)

Details

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.
(CVE-2016-1704)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 15.10

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2016-1704