14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical has released details about quite a few Oxide vulnerabilities that have been found and fixed in Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in a security notification.
It feels like the Oxide packages are amongst the most updated packages in the past few months. Just as usual, a few security issues have been fixed in Oxide, and users should really take the opportunity to upgrade their operating systems.
"A use-after-free was discovered in the GPU process implementation in Chromium. 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 application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program," reads the security notice.
This is just one of the issues that have been identified and corrected with this particular update. For a more detailed description of the problems, you can see Canonical's security notification. Users have been advised to upgrade their systems as soon as possible.
The problems can be repaired if you upgrade your system to the latest liboxideqtcore0 package specific to each distribution. To apply the patch, users will have to run the Update Manager application. A reboot of the system is not required.