USN-2131-1: IcedTea Web vulnerability

Publication date

6 March 2014

Overview

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


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.

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.

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:


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