1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1625-1

USN-1625-1: Icedtea-Web vulnerability

Publication date

7 November 2012

Overview

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

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.

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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
12.10 quantal icedtea-7-plugin –  1.3-1ubuntu1.1
icedtea-6-plugin –  1.3-1ubuntu1.1
12.04 precise icedtea-7-plugin –  1.2-2ubuntu1.3
icedtea-6-plugin –  1.2-2ubuntu1.3
11.10 oneiric icedtea-6-plugin –  1.2-2ubuntu0.11.10.4
10.04 lucid icedtea-6-plugin –  1.2-2ubuntu0.10.04.3

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