The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2677-1 advisory.

    An uninitialized value issue was discovered in ICU. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially     crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-1270)

    A use-after-free was discovered in the GPU process implementation in Chromium. 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-2015-1272)

    A use-after-free was discovered in the IndexedDB implementation in Chromium. 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-2015-1276)

    A use-after-free was discovered in the accessibility implemetation in Chromium. 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-2015-1277)

    A memory corruption issue 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, or     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2015-1280)

    It was discovered that Blink did not properly determine the V8 context of a microtask in some     circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could     potentially exploit this to bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) restrictions. (CVE-2015-1281)

    Multiple integer overflows were discovered in Expat. 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-2015-1283)

    It was discovered that Blink did not enforce a page's maximum number of

    frames in some circumstances, resulting in a use-after-free. 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-2015-1284)

    It was discovered that the XSS auditor in Blink did not properly choose a truncation point. If a user were     tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain     sensitive information. (CVE-2015-1285)

    An issue was discovered in the CSS implementation in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a     specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions.
    (CVE-2015-1287)

    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-2015-1289)

    A use-after-free was discovered in oxide::qt::URLRequestDelegatedJob 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-2015-1329)

    A crash was discovered in the regular expression implementation in V8 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. (CVE-2015-5605)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2677-1)

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