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USN-1625-1: Icedtea-Web vulnerability

7 November 2012

The Icedtea-Web plugin could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted web page.

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Releases

Packages

  • icedtea-web - A web browser plugin to execute Java applets

Details

Arthur Gerkis discovered a buffer overflow in the Icedtea-Web plugin. If a
user were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker could
cause the plugin to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user
invoking the program.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your browser to make
all the necessary changes.

References