RHBA-2011:1624 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated icedtea-web package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

IcedTea-Web provides a Java web browser plug-in, a Java Web Start
implementation, and the IcedTea Web Control Panel.

The icedtea-web package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.1.4, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
(BZ#713514)

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The Java Web Start window invoked by the "javaws -about" command contained

out-of-date information and could not be closed correctly. The information was
out-dated because the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) XML file defined
inadequate access permissions to access the about.jnlp file, which contained the
update information. With this update, the about information has been moved to an
accessible location. The window failed to close as the respective process thread
became unresponsive. Now, the window contains up-to-date information and the
thread closes correctly. (BZ#683479)

• MindTerm SSH Applet failed to work as it was using class

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager, which was not present in icedtea-web. This
update adds the class and the applet works as expected. (BZ#718693)

• Java Web Start and IcedTea plug-in sometimes failed to run as they were

calling a java binary with a JDK-based path instead of a JRE-based path. With
this update, the package spec file contains the correct definition of the path
construction and javaws and icedtea-plugin call the correct java binary.
(BZ#731345, BZ#731358)

• When running an application with javaws, javaws failed to use the proxy

settings from Firefox even though the respective setting was enabled ("Use
browser settings") and failed over to the "DIRECT" mode. This happened because
javaws was looking for the DEFAULT profile in the Firefox configuration file to
acquire the current proxy settings. If it failed to locate the section with the
DEFAULT profile, the default "DIRECT" mode was applied. With this update, javaws
uses the settings from the last section under these circumstances. (BZ#734081)

• Starting from version 10, Elluminate did not work with IcedTea-Web. This

happened because Elluminate specified Class-Path elements in its manifest file
which caused a conflict with the jnlp-specified JARs. With this update, the
IcedTea-Web plug-in no longer honors the Class-Path elements (just as the Oracle
implementation) and Elluminate works with IcedTea-Web as expected. (BZ#741796)

All users of icedtea-web are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes these bugs and adds 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/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 683479 - Bad javaws -about
• BZ - 725718 - Can't switch links to the icedtea-web plugin
• BZ - 725794 - The icedtea-web package contains .debug files
• BZ - 731345 - Javaws fails with bin/java not found
• BZ - 731358 - Java plugin fails to load
• BZ - 734081 - Javaws cannot use proxy settings from Firefox.
• BZ - 737899 - icedtea-web package changes /usr/bin permissions to 755

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)