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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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