CVE-2012-3423 Information

Description

The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 does not properly handle NPVariant NPStrings without NUL terminators which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) obtain sensitive information from memory or execute arbitrary code via a crafted Java applet.

Reference

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518 http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863 http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d65bd94e0ba9 http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d7375e2a9076 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50089 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841345