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Posted on 31 July 2019
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: icedtea-web security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2004-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2004
Issue date: 2019-07-31
CVE Names: CVE-2019-10181 CVE-2019-10182 CVE-2019-10185
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1. Summary:
An update for icedtea-web is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch
3. Description:
The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an
implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It
also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the
plug-in and Web Start implementations. IcedTea-Web now also contains
PolicyEditor - a simple tool to configure Java policies.
Security Fix(es):
* icedtea-web: path traversal while processing <jar/> elements of JNLP
files results in arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2019-10182)
* icedtea-web: directory traversal in the nested jar auto-extraction
leading to arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2019-10185)
* icedtea-web: unsigned code injection in a signed JAR file
(CVE-2019-10181)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Web browsers using the IcedTea-Web browser plug-in must be restarted for
this update to take effect.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1724958 - CVE-2019-10182 icedtea-web: path traversal while processing <jar/> elements of JNLP files results in arbitrary file overwrite
1724989 - CVE-2019-10185 icedtea-web: directory traversal in the nested jar auto-extraction leading to arbitrary file overwrite
1725928 - CVE-2019-10181 icedtea-web: unsigned code injection in a signed JAR file
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
icedtea-web-1.7.1-17.el8_0.src.rpm
noarch:
icedtea-web-1.7.1-17.el8_0.noarch.rpm
icedtea-web-javadoc-1.7.1-17.el8_0.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10181
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10182
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10185
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
