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Unscored USN-3091-1 7 CVEs

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

Published Oct 7, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings 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 application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5170)

A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings 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 application
crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5171)

An issue was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
ontain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations.
(CVE-2016-5172)

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.
(CVE-2016-5175, CVE-2016-5178)

A use-after-free was discovered in V8. 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-2016-5177)

It was discovered that Chromium does not ensure the recipient of a certain
IPC message is a valid RenderFrame or RenderWidget. An attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitary code. (CVE-2016-7549)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS oxide-qt 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS oxide-qt 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Vulnerabilities 7

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5170
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5171
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5172
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5175
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5177
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5178
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7549