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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1250-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1250-1
Posted Oct 28, 2011
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1250-1 - It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Adium theme allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary javascript or HTML via a crafted nickname in XMPP group conversations.

tags | advisory, remote, arbitrary, javascript, xss
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2011-3635, CVE-2011-4170
SHA-256 | bb596737256bf1498dc4e8ab2deb23600bef32b7a1deac28b628191754cadc06

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1250-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1250-1
October 28, 2011

empathy vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Empathy could be made to run programs or display webpages via specially
crafted nicknames.

Software Description:
- empathy: GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client

Details:

It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in
the Adium theme allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary javascript
or HTML via a crafted nickname in XMPP group conversations.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
empathy 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 10.10:
empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
empathy 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to
make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1250-1
CVE-2011-3635, CVE-2011-4170

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/2.34.0-0ubuntu3.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/2.32.1-0ubuntu1.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1

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