Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package oxide-qt  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-OXIDEQT-622726
  • published14 May 2016
  • disclosed14 May 2016

Introduced: 14 May 2016

CVE-2016-1671  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream oxide-qt package and not the oxide-qt package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 on Android mishandles / (slash) and \ (backslash) characters, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a file: URL, related to net/base/escape.cc and net/base/filename_util.cc.