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openSUSE 12.1 & 11.4: 2012:0981-1 Critical IcedTea-Web Memory Flaw

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A new patch for icedtea-web resolves critical vulnerabilities affecting openSUSE versions 11.4 and 12.1, in accordance with the security notice 2012:0981-1.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical openSUSE IcedTea-Web memory read

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-512

- openSUSE 11.4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-512

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):

icedtea-web-1.2.1-6.1

icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.2.1-6.1

icedtea-web-debugsource-1.2.1-6.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (noarch):

icedtea-web-javadoc-1.2.1-6.1

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

icedtea-web-1.2.1-0.13.1

icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.2.1-0.13.1

icedtea-web-debugsource-1.2.1-0.13.1

- openSUSE 11.4 (noarch):

icedtea-web-javadoc-1.2.1-0.13.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3422.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3423.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0981-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical openSUSE IcedTea-Web memory read

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