USN-1625-1: Icedtea-Web vulnerability

Releases

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

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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10

• icedtea-7-plugin - 1.3-1ubuntu1.1
• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.3-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• icedtea-7-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu1.3
• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 11.10

• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu0.11.10.4

Ubuntu 10.04

• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2-2ubuntu0.10.04.3

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

References

• CVE-2012-4540