Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0778-01 - 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. The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: icedtea-web. Security Fix:
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Ubuntu Security Notice 2817-1 - It was discovered that IcedTea Web incorrectly handled applet URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject applets into the .appletTrustSettings configuration file and bypass user approval. Andrea Palazzo discovered that IcedTea Web incorrectly determined the origin of unsigned applets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass user approval, or to trick the user into approving applet execution. Various other issues were also addressed.
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