CVE-2015-5235

Impact

IcedTea-Web before 1.5.3 and 1.6.x before 1.6.1 does not properly determine the origin of unsigned applets, which allows remote attackers to bypass the approval process or trick users into approving applet execution via a crafted web page.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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=1233697
• 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=1233697