Executive Summary

Summary
Title IcedTea Web vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2817-1 First vendor Publication 2015-11-24
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-11-24
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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in IcedTea Web.

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

Details:

It was discovered that IcedTea Web incorrectly handled applet URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject applets into the .appletTrustSettings configuration file and bypass user approval. (CVE-2015-5234)

Andrea Palazzo discovered that IcedTea Web incorrectly determined the origin of unsigned applets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass user approval, or to trick the user into approving applet execution. (CVE-2015-5235)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
icedtea-7-plugin 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 15.04:
icedtea-7-plugin 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
icedtea-6-plugin 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
icedtea-7-plugin 1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2817-1
CVE-2015-5234, CVE-2015-5235

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/1.5.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/1.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2817-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-06-09 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20160510_icedtea_web_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-17 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2016-0778.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-16 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-0778.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-12 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0778.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-25 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2817-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-07 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1682-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-07 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1689-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-602.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-15676.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-15677.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2015-11-26 13:27:36
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-24 21:26:15
  • First insertion