Vulnerability CVE-2015-5234
Published: 2015-10-09

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Icedtea 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux hpc node 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
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
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