USN-2757-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2757-1

5th October, 2015

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

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 version:

Ubuntu 15.04:

liboxideqtcore0 1.9.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0 1.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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-2015-1303, CVE-2015-1304

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/1RqHYR2