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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2582-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2582-1
Posted May 7, 2015
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2582-1 - A use-after-free was discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. 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, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250
SHA-256 | eb4123041662ddbcc44dafe693a3d63535ce7442cd42a552878a82cd53706545

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2582-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2582-1
May 06, 2015

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

- Ubuntu 15.04
- 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 use-after-free was discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. 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, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed
render process. (CVE-2015-1243)

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-2015-1250)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
liboxideqtcore0 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:
liboxideqtcore0 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liboxideqtcore0 1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2582-1
CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
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