Users have been advised to upgrade their systems

May 21, 2015 15:44 GMT  ·  By

Details about a number of Oxide vulnerabilities which have been found and fixed in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, have been detailed in a security notification.

Oxide-qt is the web browser engine library for Qt (QML plugin) and quite a few problems have been identified. It's mostly about security fixes and other smaller issues.

"A use-after-free was discovered in the WebAudio implementation in Chromium. If a user were tricked into 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," reads the security notification.

This is just one of the issues that have identified and corrected with this particular update. For a more detailed description of the problems, you can see Canonical's security notification. Users have been advised to upgrade their systems as soon as possible.

The problems can be repaired if you upgrade your system to the latest liboxideqtcore0, oxideqt-codecs, and oxideqt-codecs-extra packages specific to each distribution. To apply the patch, users will have to run the Update Manager application. A reboot of the operating system is not required as this is not a core component.