RHEL 6 : icedtea-web (RHSA-2012:1132)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 61378

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for icedtea-web.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1132 advisory.

- icedtea-web: getvalueforurl uninitialized instance pointer (CVE-2012-3422)

- icedtea-web: incorrect handling of not 0-terminated strings (CVE-2012-3423)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL icedtea-web package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1132.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 61378

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1132.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/1/2012

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3423

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:icedtea-web, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:icedtea-web-javadoc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3422, CVE-2012-3423

RHSA: 2012:1132

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