USN-2582-1

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USN-2582-1

Summary: oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Details: A use-after-free was discovered in the DOM implementation in Blink. 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 renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2015-1243) Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2015-1250)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2582-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1243, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1250