[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:0981-1: important: icedtea-web: Update to 1.2.1 (bnc#)

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openSUSE Security Update: icedtea-web: Update to 1.2.1 (bnc#)

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0981-1

Rating: important

References: #773458

Cross-References: CVE-2012-3422 CVE-2012-3423

Affected Products:

openSUSE 12.1

openSUSE 11.4

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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

 

Description:

 

- update to 1.2.1 (bnc#773458)

- Security Updates

* CVE-2012-3422, RH840592: Potential read from an

uninitialized memory location

* CVE-2012-3423, RH841345: Incorrect handling of not

0-terminated strings

- NetX

* PR898: signed applications with big jnlp-file doesn't

start (webstart affect like "frozen")

* PR811: javaws is not handling urls with spaces (and

other characters needing encoding) correctly

* 816592: icedtea-web not loading GeoGebra java applets

in Firefox or Chrome

- Plugin

* PR863: Error passing strings to applet methods in

Chromium

* PR895: IcedTea-Web searches for missing classes on each

loadClass or findClass

* PR518: NPString.utf8characters not guaranteed to be

nul-terminated

- Common

* RH838417: Disambiguate signed applet security prompt

from certificate warning

* RH838559: Disambiguate signed applet security prompt

from certificate warning

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE 12.1:

 

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-512

 

- openSUSE 11.4:

 

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-512

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):

 

icedtea-web-1.2.1-6.1

icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.2.1-6.1

icedtea-web-debugsource-1.2.1-6.1

 

- openSUSE 12.1 (noarch):

 

icedtea-web-javadoc-1.2.1-6.1

 

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

 

icedtea-web-1.2.1-0.13.1

icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.2.1-0.13.1

icedtea-web-debugsource-1.2.1-0.13.1

 

- openSUSE 11.4 (noarch):

 

icedtea-web-javadoc-1.2.1-0.13.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3422.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3423.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/773458

 

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