Fedora 16 : icedtea-web-1.3.1-1.fc16 (2012-17745)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62881

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected icedtea-web package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62881

File Name: fedora_2012-17745.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:icedtea-web, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2012

Reference Information

BID: 56434

FEDORA: 2012-17745

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