icedtea-web vulnerabilities

31 July 2012

icedtea-web vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

The IcedTea-Web Java web browser plugin could be made to crash or possibly run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted applet.

Software Description

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

Details

Chamal De Silva discovered that the IcedTea-Web Java web browser plugin could dereference an uninitialized pointer. A remote attacker could use this to craft a malicious web page that could cause a denial of service by crashing the web browser or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3422)

Steven Bergom and others discovered that the IcedTea-Web Java web browser plugin assumed that all strings provided by browsers are NULL terminated, which is not guaranteed by the NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface). A remote attacker could use this to craft a malicious Java applet that could cause a denial of service by crashing the web browser, expose sensitive information or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3423)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu1.1

icedtea-7-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.10

icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu0.11.10.2

Ubuntu 11.04

icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu0.11.04.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu0.10.04.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2012-3422
• CVE-2012-3423