Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package oxide-qt (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-OXIDEQT-397150
- published25 Sept 2016
- disclosed25 Sept 2016
Introduced: 25 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-5172 (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.
The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5172
- https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
- https://crbug.com/616386
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3667
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5172
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2077283004
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92942
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036826