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Unscored USN-2556-1 3 CVEs

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Published Apr 7, 2015 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that Chromium did not properly handle the interaction
of IPC, the gamepad API and V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2015-1233)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the GPU service. 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. (CVE-2015-1234)

It was discovered that Oxide did not correctly manage the lifetime of
BrowserContext, resulting in a potential use-after-free in some
circumstances. 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 with the
privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2015-1317)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS oxide-qt 1.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

Vulnerabilities 3

  • Unscored —

    Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.118 does not properly handle the interaction of IPC, the Gamepad API, and Google V8, whi…

  • Unscored —

    Race condition in gpu/command_buffer/service/gles2_cmd_decoder.cc in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.118 allows remote a…

  • Unscored —

    Use-after-free vulnerability in Oxide before 1.5.6 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1233
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1234
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1317
  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1431484