CVE-2015-5234 Information

Description

IcedTea-Web before 1.5.3 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly sanitize applet URLs which allows remote attackers to inject applets into the .appletTrustSettings configuration file and bypass user approval to execute the applet via a crafted web page possibly related to line breaks.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167120.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167130.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-September/033546.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0778.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033780 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2817-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233667