Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : oxide-qt vulnerabilities (USN-2410-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 79354
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Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
A buffer overflow was discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7904)Multiple use-after-frees were discovered in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2014-7907)
An integer overflow was discovered in media. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacked 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-2014-7908)
An uninitialized memory read was discovered in Skia. 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. (CVE-2014-7909)
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-2014-7910).
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Solution
Update the affected liboxideqtcore0, oxideqt-codecs and / or oxideqt-codecs-extra packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 79354
File Name: ubuntu_USN-2410-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/20/2014
Updated: 1/19/2021
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboxideqtcore0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oxideqt-codecs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oxideqt-codecs-extra, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2014
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909, CVE-2014-7910
USN: 2410-1