IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in IcedTea, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. icedtea 2017-07-05 2017-07-05 607676 609562 618874 619458 remote 7.2.6.10 3.4.0 7.2.6.10 3.4.0

IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IcedTea. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Note: If the web browser plug-in provided by the dev-java/icedtea-web package was installed, the issues exposed via Java applets could have been exploited without user interaction if a user visited a malicious website.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, gain access to information, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All IcedTea binary 7.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.10:7"

All IcedTea binary 3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.4.0:8" CVE-2016-2183 CVE-2016-5546 CVE-2016-5547 CVE-2016-5548 CVE-2016-5549 CVE-2016-5552 CVE-2017-3231 CVE-2017-3241 CVE-2017-3252 CVE-2017-3253 CVE-2017-3260 CVE-2017-3261 CVE-2017-3272 CVE-2017-3289 CVE-2017-3509 CVE-2017-3511 CVE-2017-3512 CVE-2017-3514 CVE-2017-3526 CVE-2017-3533 CVE-2017-3539 CVE-2017-3544 whissi whissi