Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-971-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that the IcedTea plugin did not correctly check certain accesses. If a user or automated system were tricked into running a specially crafted Java applet, a remote attacker could read arbitrary files with user privileges, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2548, CVE-2010-2783)
Affected
openjdk-6 vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 9.04 ,
Ubuntu 9.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-2548, CVE-2010-2783 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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