Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 18:54 -0300, Gurvan Huiban wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.13.6-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > When using Debian kernels, my browser fails to detect Java when > accessing my Internet Banking. When using vanilla kernels, everything > works perfectly. > > More precisely: > The Internet banking site is Banco do Brasil (http://www.bb.com.br . > Clicking on the small blue OK button on the top of the page launches > the Java security applet required to access the bank account). > On the same computer: > - When booting with the linux-image-3.13-1-amd64, the browser returns > an error (No Java detected) > - When booting with the vanilla linux kernel (3.13.6, compiled with > kernel-package), the Java applet executes normally. > > This problem seems to be independent from the Internet browser (the > same behavior is observed with Iceweasel, Chromium and Opera) and > independent from the Java version (problem observed with OpenJDK6, > OpenJDK7 and Oracle's Java 7). > > Note that this problem was oberved with other versions of the kernel > (3.10 for instance), but does not occur on Wheezy (Unless the kernel > is upgraded with Jessie's one for instance). > > I believe that one of the patch applied on Debian kernel interferes > with the relationship between the Browser and Java when running the > Internet banking applet.
We don't patch very much, so my suspicion is that this is purely
triggered by the version number (only 2 dotted components).
> Could you please investigated?
So there's an easy way to check this. Try quitting Iceweasel and then
restarting it with the command:
setarch x86_64 --uname-2.6 iceweasel
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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