Fixed vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2015-1209 (VulnLIB link) A use-after-free bug 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-2015-1210 (VulnLIB link) It was discovered that V8 did not properly consider frame access restrictions when throwing exceptions in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same origin restrictions.
- CVE-2015-1211 (VulnLIB link) It was discovered that Chromium did not properly restrict the URI scheme during ServiceWorker registration. If a user were tricked in to downloading and opening a specially crafted HTML file, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass security restrictions.
- CVE-2015-1212 (VulnLIB link) 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.
Affected releases:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Software description:
- oxide-qt - Web browser engine library for Qt (QML plugin)
Solution:
- Check VulnLIB for fixes for CVEs listed above and the source.
Source:
Wednesday, 11.02.2015