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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2757-1

Posted on 06 October 2015
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2757-1
October 05, 2015

oxide-qt vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.04
- 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:

Two security issues were discovered in Blink and V8. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to bypass same-origin restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
liboxideqtcore0 1.9.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0 1.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2757-1
CVE-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.9.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

 

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