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Ubuntu: USN-2955-1 (CVE-2016-1655): Oxide vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2955-1 (CVE-2016-1655): Oxide vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/18/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/28/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not properly consider that frame removal may occur during callback execution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted extension.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-liboxideqtcore0

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