Ubuntu 12.10: USN-1626-1 High: Gnome-Shell Denial of Service Vulnerability

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November 7, 2012

The Icedtea-Web plugin could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted web page.

Summary

The Icedtea-Web plugin could be made to crash or run programs as your login

if it opened a specially crafted web page.

Software Description:

- icedtea-web: A web browser plugin to execute Java applets

Details:

Arthur Gerkis discovered a buffer overflow in the Icedtea-Web plugin. If a

user were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker could

cause the plugin to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user

invoking the program.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate unauthorized access buffer overflow Ubuntu crash icedtea-web

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
  icedtea-6-plugin                1.3-1ubuntu1.1
  icedtea-7-plugin                1.3-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-plugin                1.2-2ubuntu1.3
  icedtea-7-plugin                1.2-2ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 11.10:
  icedtea-6-plugin                1.2-2ubuntu0.11.10.4

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-plugin                1.2-2ubuntu0.10.04.3

After a standard system update you need to restart your browser to make
all the necessary changes.