openSUSE Security Update: icedtea-web: Update to 1.2.1 (bnc#)
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2012:0981-1
Rating:             important
References:         #773458 
Cross-References:   CVE-2012-3422 CVE-2012-3423
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 12.1
                    openSUSE 11.4
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   An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

   - update to 1.2.1 (bnc#773458)
   - Security Updates
   * CVE-2012-3422, RH840592: Potential read from an
   uninitialized memory location
   * CVE-2012-3423, RH841345: Incorrect handling of not
   0-terminated strings
   - NetX
   * PR898: signed applications with big jnlp-file doesn't
   start (webstart affect like "frozen")
   * PR811: javaws is not handling urls with spaces (and
   other characters needing encoding) correctly
   * 816592: icedtea-web not loading GeoGebra java applets
   in Firefox or Chrome
   - Plugin
   * PR863: Error passing strings to applet methods in
   Chromium
   * PR895: IcedTea-Web searches for missing classes on each
   loadClass or findClass
   * PR518: NPString.utf8characters not guaranteed to be
   nul-terminated
   - Common
   * RH838417: Disambiguate signed applet security prompt
   from certificate warning
   * RH838559: Disambiguate signed applet security prompt
   from certificate warning


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 12.1:

      zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-512

   - openSUSE 11.4:

      zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-512

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):

      icedtea-web-1.2.1-6.1
      icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.2.1-6.1
      icedtea-web-debugsource-1.2.1-6.1

   - openSUSE 12.1 (noarch):

      icedtea-web-javadoc-1.2.1-6.1

   - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

      icedtea-web-1.2.1-0.13.1
      icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.2.1-0.13.1
      icedtea-web-debugsource-1.2.1-0.13.1

   - openSUSE 11.4 (noarch):

      icedtea-web-javadoc-1.2.1-0.13.1


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3422.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3423.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/773458

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