The LiveConnect implementation in plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc in IcedTea-Web before 1.4.2 allows...
Vulnerability Description
The LiveConnect implementation in plugin/icedteanp/IcedTeaNPPlugin.cc in IcedTea-Web before 1.4.2 allows local users to read the messages between a Java applet and a web browser by pre-creating a temporary socket file with a predictable name in /tmp.
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References
- http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-February/026192.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010958
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2131-1
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/282
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57036
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/rev/228e3652214a
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00089.html
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