It was discovered that the IcedTea plugin did not correctly check certainaccesses. If a user or automated system were tricked into running aspecially crafted Java applet, a remote attacker could read arbitraryfiles with user privileges, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2548,CVE-2010-2783) The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart any Java applicationsto make all the necessary changes. CVE-2010-2548, CVE-2010-2783
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