SUSE-SU-2015:1682-1

The Java IcedTea-Web Plugin was updated to 1.6.1 bringing various features, bug- and securityfixes.

• Enabled Entry-Point attribute check
• permissions sandbox and signed app and unsigned app with permissions all-permissions now run in sandbox instead of not t all.
• fixed DownloadService
• comments in deployment.properties now should persists load/save
• fixed bug in caching of files with query
• fixed issues with recreating of existing shortcut
• trustAll/trustNone now processed correctly
• headless no longer shows dialogues
• RH1231441 Unable to read the text of the buttons of the security dialogue
• Fixed RH1233697 icedtea-web: applet origin spoofing (CVE-2015-5235, bsc#944208)
• Fixed RH1233667 icedtea-web: unexpected permanent authorization of unsigned applets (CVE-2015-5234, bsc#944209)
• MissingALACAdialog made available also for unsigned applications (but ignoring actual manifest value) and fixed
• NetX
  • fixed issues with -html shortcuts
  • fixed issue with -html receiving garbage in width and height
• PolicyEditor
  • file flag made to work when used standalone
  • file flag and main argument cannot be used in combination

The update to 1.6 is included and brings:

• Massively improved offline abilities. Added Xoffline switch to force work without inet connection.
• Improved to be able to run with any JDK
• JDK 6 and older no longer supported
• JDK 8 support added (URLPermission granted if applicable)
• JDK 9 supported
• Added support for Entry-Point manifest attribute
• Added KEYENABLEMANIFESTATTRIBUTESCHECK deployment property to control scan of Manifest file
• starting arguments now accept also -- abbreviations
• Added new documentation
• Added support for menu shortcuts - both javaws applications/applets and html applets are supported
• added support for -html switch for javaws. Now you can run most of the applets without browser at all
• Control Panel
  • PR1856: ControlPanel UI improvement for lower resolutions (800*600)
• NetX
  • PR1858: Java Console accepts multi-byte encodings
  • PR1859: Java Console UI improvement for lower resolutions (800*600)
  • RH1091563: [abrt] icedtea-web-1.5-2.fc20: Uncaught exception java.lang.ClassCastException in method sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer$8.run()
  • Dropped support for long unmaintained -basedir argument
  • Returned support for -jnlp argument
  • RH1095311, PR574 - References class sun.misc.Ref removed in OpenJDK 9 - fixed, and so buildable on JDK9
• Plugin
  • PR1743 - Intermittant deadlock in PluginRequestProcessor
  • PR1298 - LiveConnect - problem setting array elements (applet variables) from JS
  • RH1121549: coverity defects
  • Resolves method overloading correctly with superclass heirarchy distance
• PolicyEditor
  • codebases can be renamed in-place, copied, and pasted
  • codebase URLs can be copied to system clipboard
  • displays a progress dialog while opening or saving files
  • codebases without permissions assigned save to file anyway (and re-appear on next open)
  • PR1776: NullPointer on save-and-exit
  • PR1850: duplicate codebases when launching from security dialogs
  • Fixed bug where clicking 'Cancel' on the 'Save before Exiting' dialog could result in the editor exiting without saving changes
  • Keyboard accelerators and mnemonics greatly improved
  • 'File - New' allows editing a new policy without first selecting the file to save to
• Common
  • PR1769: support signed applets which specify Sandbox permissions in their manifests
• Temporary Permissions in security dialog now multi-selectable and based on PolicyEditor permissions

The update to 1.5.2 brings OpenJDK 8 support (fate#318956) * NetX - RH1095311, PR574 - References class sun.misc.Ref removed in OpenJDK 9 - fixed, and so buildable on JDK9 - RH1154177 - decoded file needed from cache - fixed NPE in https dialog - empty codebase behaves as '.'