USN-2905-1: Oxide vulnerability

23 February 2016

Oxide could be made to bypass same-origin restrictions.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

A security issue was discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to bypass same-origin restrictions or a sandbox protection mechanism.
(CVE-2016-1629)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10
Ubuntu 14.04

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

References

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