USN-2652-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2652-1

30th June, 2015

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

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

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly consider the scheme when
determining whether a URL is associated with a WebUI SiteInstance. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1266)

It was discovered that Blink did not properly restrict the creation
context during creation of a DOM wrapper. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2015-1267, CVE-2015-1268)

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly canonicalize DNS hostnames
before comparing to HSTS or HPKP preload entries. An attacker could
potentially exploit this to bypass intended access restrictions.
(CVE-2015-1269)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:

liboxideqtcore0 1.7.9-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.10:

liboxideqtcore0 1.7.9-0ubuntu0.14.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0 1.7.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2015-1266, CVE-2015-1267, CVE-2015-1268, CVE-2015-1269

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/1LFxop3