Fedora 17 : icedtea-web-1.3-1.fc17 (2012-14316)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62232

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840592

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841345

https://dbhole.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/icedtea-web-1-3-released/

http://www.nessus.org/u?6dcabfb4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62232

File Name: fedora_2012-14316.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:icedtea-web, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3422, CVE-2012-3423

BID: 54762

FEDORA: 2012-14316