Fedora 19 : icedtea-web-1.4.2-0.fc19 (2014-2071)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72520

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New in release 1.4.2 (2014-02-05) :

- Dialogs center on screen before becoming visible

- Support for u45 new manifest attributes (Application-Name)

- Custom applet permission policies panel in itweb-settings control panel

- Plugin

- PR1271: icedtea-web does not handle 'javascript:'-protocol URLs

- RH976833: Multiple applets on one page cause deadlock

- Enabled javaconsole

- RH1010958: insecure temporary file use flaw in LiveConnect implementation

Except above also :

- Christmas splashscreen extension

- fixed classloading deadlocks

- cleaned code from warnings

- pipes moved to XDG runtime dir

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?1cb6a653

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72520

File Name: fedora_2014-2071.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:icedtea-web, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2014

Reference Information

BID: 65437

FEDORA: 2014-2071