Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for icedtea-web. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for icedtea-web
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51220
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-11-08
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for icedtea-web. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the
"invoke()" function (IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc) when handling
exception messages from events within an applet and can be exploited
to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Arthur Gerkis.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2012:1434-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1434.html
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