[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: icedtea-web-1.3-1.fc18
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Tue Sep 25 06:19:09 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-14370
2012-09-20 05:40:35
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Name : icedtea-web
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 1.3
Release : 1.fc18
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 update brings IcedTea-Web 1.3 to Fedora. From Red Hat Bugzilla, it fixes rhbz#720836. Additionally, it provides numerous other bug fixes and enhancements, many of which are listed here:
https://dbhole.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/icedtea-web-1-3-released/
- Updated to 1.2.1
- Resolves: RH840592/CVE-2012-3422
- Resolves: RH841345/CVE-2012-3423
- Updated to 1.2.1
- Resolves: RH840592/CVE-2012-3422
- Resolves: RH841345/CVE-2012-3423
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #840592 - CVE-2012-3422 icedtea-web: getvalueforurl uninitialized instance pointer
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840592
[ 2 ] Bug #841345 - CVE-2012-3423 icedtea-web: incorrect handling of not 0-terminated strings
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841345
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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
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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