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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62881

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b0cef96

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62881

File Name: fedora_2012-17745.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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