CVE-2016-1578

Publication date 19 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Oxide allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to responding synchronously to permission requests.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
oxide-qt 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.14.7-0ubuntu1
15.10 wily
Fixed 1.14.7-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.14.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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