The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2960-1 advisory.

    An out of bounds write was discovered 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 renderer crash, or     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1660)

    It was discovered that Blink assumes that a frame which passes same-origin checks is local in some cases.
    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. (CVE-2016-1661)

    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     renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1663)

    It was discovered that the JSGenericLowering class in V8 mishandles comparison operators. If a user were     tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain     sensitive information. (CVE-2016-1665)

    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-2016-1666)

    It was discovered that the TreeScope::adoptIfNeeded function in Blink does not prevent script execution     during node-adoption 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-2016-1667)

    It was discovered that the forEachForBinding in the V8 bindings in Blink uses an improper creation     context. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially     exploit this to bypass same origin restrictions. (CVE-2016-1668)

    A buffer overflow 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 renderer crash, or execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1669)

    A race condition was discovered in ResourceDispatcherHostImpl in Chromium. An attacker could potentially     exploit this to make arbitrary HTTP requests. (CVE-2016-1670)

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

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerabilities (USN-2960-1)

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