Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2895-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88861

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2895-1 advisory.

The DOM implementation in Chromium did not properly restrict frame-attach operations from occurring during or after frame-detach operations. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2016-1623)

An integer underflow was discovered in Brotli. 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-2016-1624)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2895-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88861

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2895-1.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2016

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1624

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboxideqtcore0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oxideqt-codecs-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oxideqt-codecs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboxideqt-qmlplugin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oxideqmlscene, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liboxideqtquick0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:oxideqt-chromedriver

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: 2/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1623, CVE-2016-1624

USN: 2895-1