Executive Summary

Summary
Title IcedTea Web vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2131-1 First vendor Publication 2014-03-06
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-03-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.10 - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

IcedTea Web could be made to expose or alter sensitive information.

Software Description: - icedtea-web: A web browser plugin to execute Java applets

Details:

Michael Scherer discovered that IcedTea Web created temporary directories in an unsafe fashion. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain or modify sensitive information from other local user sessions.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10:
icedtea-6-plugin 1.4-3ubuntu2.1
icedtea-7-plugin 1.4-3ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
icedtea-6-plugin 1.3.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.3
icedtea-7-plugin 1.3.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
icedtea-6-plugin 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.4
icedtea-7-plugin 1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

After a standard system update you need to restart your browser to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2131-1
CVE-2013-6493

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/1.4-3ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/1.3.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2131-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23984
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23984
Title: USN-2131-1 -- icedtea-web vulnerability
Description: IcedTea Web could be made to expose or alter sensitive information.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2131-1
CVE-2013-6493
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): icedtea-web
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25368
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25368
Title: SUSE-SU-2014:0397-1 -- Security update for icedtea-web
Description: The OpenJDK Java Plugin IcedTea Web was released to fix a temporary file access problem.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2014:0397-1
CVE-2013-6493
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): icedtea-web
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 22

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-176.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-20 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_icedtea-web-140304.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-03-07 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2131-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-03-08 13:21:10
  • Multiple Updates
2014-03-06 17:18:44
  • First insertion