USN-2131-1: IcedTea Web vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

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

Details

Michael Scherer discovered that IcedTea Web created temporary directories
in an unsafe fashion. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
obtain or modify sensitive information from other local user sessions.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

• icedtea-7-plugin - 1.4-3ubuntu2.1
• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.4-3ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• icedtea-7-plugin - 1.3.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.3
• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.3.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.3

Ubuntu 12.04

• icedtea-7-plugin - 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.4
• icedtea-6-plugin - 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

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

References

• CVE-2013-6493