USN-3133-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3133-1

1st December, 2016

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Software description

• oxide-qt - Web browser engine for Qt (QML plugin)

Details

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial
of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-5198, CVE-2016-5200, CVE-2016-5202)

A heap-corruption issue was discovered in FFmpeg. 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 application crash, or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5199)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10:

liboxideqtcore0 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

liboxideqtcore0 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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-2016-5198, CVE-2016-5199, CVE-2016-5200, CVE-2016-5202

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2fWQX22