icedtea-web vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-1926   CVE-2013-1927  

Two security issues were fixed in IcedTea-Web.

Jiri Vanek discovered that IcedTea-Web would use the same classloader for applets from different domains. A remote attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive information or potentially manipulate applets from other domains. (CVE-2013-1926)

18 April 2013

icedtea-web vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 12.10
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 11.10
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Two security issues were fixed in IcedTea-Web.

Software Description

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

Details

Jiri Vanek discovered that IcedTea-Web would use the same classloader for applets from different domains. A remote attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive information or potentially manipulate applets from other domains. (CVE-2013-1926)

It was discovered that IcedTea-Web did not properly verify JAR files and was susceptible to the GIFAR attack. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website, a remote attacker could potentially exploit this to execute code under certain circumstances. (CVE-2013-1927)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10
icedtea-netx - 1.3.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
icedtea-netx - 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
Ubuntu 11.10
icedtea-netx - 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
icedtea-netx - 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

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

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