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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-17762 (icedtea-web)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: icedtea-web-1.3.1-1.fc17
Date:  Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:23:22 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121111022322.21E4420AE9@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-17762 2012-11-08 01:31:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : icedtea-web Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.3.1 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web Summary : Java browser plug-in and Web Start implementation Description : The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plugin, an implementation of Java Web Start (originally based on the Netx project) and a settings tool to manage deployment settings for the aforementioned plugin and Web Start implementations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Nov 7 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com> 1.3.1-1 - Resolves: RH869040/CVE-2012-4540 * Mon Sep 17 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com> 1.3-1 - Updated to 1.3 - Resolves: rhbz#720836: Epiphany fails to execute Java applets * Tue Jul 31 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com> 1.2.1-1 - Updated to 1.2.1 - Resolves: RH840592/CVE-2012-3422 - Resolves: RH841345/CVE-2012-3423 * Thu May 3 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com> 1.2-4 - Resolves rhbz#814585 - Fixed java-plugin provides and added one for javaws * Tue Apr 17 2012 Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com> 1.2-3 - Updated summary - Fixed virtual provide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update icedtea-web' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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