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openSUSE Security Update : icedtea-web (openSUSE-SU-2012:0981-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 74711

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- update to 1.2.1 (bnc#773458)

 - Security Updates

 - CVE-2012-3422, RH840592: Potential read from an uninitialized memory location

 - CVE-2012-3423, RH841345: Incorrect handling of not 0-terminated strings

 - NetX

 - PR898: signed applications with big jnlp-file doesn't start (webstart affect like 'frozen')

 - PR811: javaws is not handling urls with spaces (and other characters needing encoding) correctly

 - 816592: icedtea-web not loading GeoGebra java applets in Firefox or Chrome

 - Plugin

 - PR863: Error passing strings to applet methods in Chromium

 - PR895: IcedTea-Web searches for missing classes on each loadClass or findClass

 - PR518: NPString.utf8characters not guaranteed to be nul-terminated

 - Common

 - RH838417: Disambiguate signed applet security prompt from certificate warning

 - RH838559: Disambiguate signed applet security prompt from certificate warning

Solution

Update the affected icedtea-web packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773458

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00021.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 74711

File Name: openSUSE-2012-512.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icedtea-web, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icedtea-web-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icedtea-web-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:icedtea-web-javadoc, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3422, CVE-2012-3423