USN-1521-1 : icedtea-web vulnerabilities

NASLDB: USN-1521-1 : icedtea-web vulnerabilities

General

ID: 61380
Name: USN-1521-1 : icedtea-web vulnerabilities

Summary: Checks dpkg output for updated package(s)

Credits: –

Classification

Risk: –

CVSS: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Base Vector: –
CVSS Temporal Vector: –

Port: 0
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Type: Local

Description

Chamal De Silva discovered that the IcedTea-Web Java web browser
plugin could dereference an uninitialized pointer. A remote attacker
could use this to craft a malicious web page that could cause a
denial of service by crashing the web browser or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3422)

Steven Bergom and others discovered that the IcedTea-Web Java web
browser plugin assumed that all strings provided by browsers are NULL
terminated, which is not guaranteed by the NPAPI (Netscape Plugin
Application Programming Interface). A remote attacker could use this
to craft a malicious Java applet that could cause a denial of service
by crashing the web browser, expose sensitive information or possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3423)