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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : icedtea-web, openjdk-6, openjdk-6b18 vulnerabilities (USN-1178-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55718

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Omair Majid discovered that an unsigned Web Start application or applet could determine the path to the cache directory used to store downloaded class and jar files by querying class loader properties.
This could allow a remote attacker to discover a user's name and home directory path. (CVE-2011-2513)

Omair Majid discovered that an unsigned Web Start application could manipulate the content of the security warning dialog message to show different file names in prompts. This could allow a remote attacker to confuse a user into granting access to a different file than they believe they are granting access to. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2011-2514).

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.

Solution

Update the affected icedtea-netx, icedtea-plugin and / or icedtea6-plugin packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1178-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55718

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1178-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:icedtea-netx, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:icedtea-plugin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:icedtea6-plugin

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2513, CVE-2011-2514

BID: 48829

USN: 1178-1