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[USN-2410-1] Oxide vulnerabilities

Posted on 19 November 2014
Ubuntu Security

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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 exploi=
t
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 exploi=
t
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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