USN-2131-1: IcedTea Web vulnerability

6 March 2014

IcedTea Web could be made to expose or alter sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

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

Details

Michael Scherer discovered that IcedTea Web created temporary directories
in an unsafe fashion. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
obtain or modify sensitive information from other local user sessions.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04

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

References