Issued:

2014-10-13

Updated:

2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1417 - icedtea-web bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

icedtea-web bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated icedtea-web packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

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.

The icedtea-web packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.5.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1075790)

Users of icedtea-web are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• icedtea-web-javadoc-1.5.1-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.5.1-1.el6.i686.rpm
• icedtea-web-1.5.1-1.el6.src.rpm
• icedtea-web-debuginfo-1.5.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• icedtea-web-1.5.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• icedtea-web-1.5.1-1.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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