[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: icedtea-web-1.3.1-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17745
2012-11-08 01:30:48
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Name        : icedtea-web
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.3.1
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web
Summary     : Java browser plug-in and Web Start implementation
Description :
The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plugin, an implementation
of Java Web Start (originally based on the Netx project) and a settings tool to
manage deployment settings for the aforementioned plugin and Web Start
implementations.

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Update Information:

This updates a recently found heap buffer overflow issue in IcedTea web. It fixes:

CVE-2012-4540 icedtea-web: IcedTeaScriptableJavaObject::invoke off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov  7 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.3.1-1
- Resolves: RH869040/CVE-2012-4540
* Wed Sep 19 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.3-2
- Fix java version which was changed to 1.7 by mistake
* Mon Sep 17 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.3-1
- Updated to 1.3
- Resolves: rhbz#720836: Epiphany fails to execute Java applets
* Tue Jul 31 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.2.1-1
- Updated to 1.2.1
- Resolves: RH840592/CVE-2012-3422
- Resolves: RH841345/CVE-2012-3423
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu May  3 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.2-4
- Resolves rhbz#814585
- Fixed java-plugin provides and added one for javaws
* Tue Apr 17 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.2-3
- Updated summary
- Fixed virtual provide
* Tue Mar 13 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> - 1.2-2
- Enable building on ARM platforms
* Mon Mar  5 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.2-1
- Updated to 1.2
* Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.4-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Nov 25 2011 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.1.4-3
- Resolves rhbz#757191
- Bumped min_openjdk_version to -60 (latest)
* Thu Nov 24 2011 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.1.4-2
- Resolves: rhbz#742887. Do not own directories not created by the package.
* Tue Nov  8 2011 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> 1.1.4-1
- Updated to 1.1.4
- Added npapi-fix patch so that the plug-in compiles with xulrunner 8
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update icedtea-web' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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