CVE-2016-1578

Publication date 19 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

Show unmaintained releases

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

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2955-1
Oxide vulnerabilities
27 April 2016

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1578