IcedTea6 before 1.7.4 does not properly check property access, which allows unsigned apps to read and write arbitrary files.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201406-32 (IcedTea JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the IcedTea JDK. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain       sensitive information, bypass intended security policies, or have other       unspecified impact.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

icedtea included in java-1_6_0-openjdk was updated to version 1.8.1 which fixes two security issues :

CVE-2010-2783: IcedTea 'Extended JNLP Services' arbitrary file access CVE-2010-2548: IcedTea Incomplete property access check for unsigned applications

The new version also fixes many non-security bugs. For details please see http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2010/07/28/icedtea6-181-released/

It was discovered that the IcedTea plugin did not correctly check certain accesses. If a user or automated system were tricked into running a specially crafted Java applet, a remote attacker could read arbitrary files with user privileges, leading to a loss of privacy.
(CVE-2010-2548, CVE-2010-2783).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
76303	GLSA-201406-32 : IcedTea JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST) (ROBOT)	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
75533	openSUSE Security Update : java-1_6_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2010:0553-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
48903	openSUSE Security Update : java-1_6_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2010:0553-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
48902	openSUSE Security Update : java-1_6_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2010:0553-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
48349	Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : openjdk-6 vulnerabilities (USN-971-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-2548

critical

Tenable Plugins

critical

high

high

high

critical