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Fedora 20 : icedtea-web-1.4.1-0.fc20 (2013-16971)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70060

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated to icedtea-web 1.4.1 New in release 1.4.1 (2013-XX-YY) :

 - Improved and cleaned Temporary internet files panel

 - PR1465 - java.io.FileNotFoundException while trying to download a JAR file

 - PR1473 - javaws should not depend on name of local file

 - PR854: Resizing an applet several times causes 100% CPU load

 - CVE-2012-4540, RH869040: Heap-based buffer overflow after triggering event attached to applet

 - reproducers tests are enabled in dist-tarball

 - application context support for OpenJDK build 25 and higher

 - small patches into rhino support and

 - PR1533: Inherit jnlp.packEnabled and jnlp.versionEnabled like other properties

 - add icedtea-web man page

 - make check enabled again

 - should be build for non-standart archs

 - removed unused multilib arches

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

Solution

Update the affected icedtea-web package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007960

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd54ac18

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70060

File Name: fedora_2013-16971.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:icedtea-web

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4540

BID: 56434, 62426

FEDORA: 2013-16971