CVE-2016-1578: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Oxide Project Oxide: affected versions not specified

Published 2016-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.