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TITLE:
IBM Eclipse Help System Redirection Weakness and Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49438

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-08

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in IBM Eclipse Help
System, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing
and cross-site scripting attacks.

1) Certain unspecified input is not properly verified before being
used to redirect users. This can be exploited to redirect a user to
an arbitrary website e.g. when a user clicks a specially crafted link
to an affected script hosted within the web application.

2) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being
returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected
site.

The weakness and the vulnerability are reported in version 3.4.3.

SOLUTION:
Apply the latest Fix Pack. Contact the vendor for further
information.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596690

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