Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package oxide-qt  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1504-OXIDEQT-396788
  • published19 Jan 2017
  • disclosed19 Jan 2017

Introduced: 19 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5226  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

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.

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux, Windows and Mac executed javascript: URLs entered in the URL bar in the context of the current tab, which allowed a socially engineered user to XSS themselves by dragging and dropping a javascript: URL into the URL bar.