USN-3133-1: Oxide vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 16.10

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• liboxideqtcore0 - 1.18.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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