Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Sun JavaDoc, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
Sun JDK JavaDoc Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25769
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25769/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Sun Java JDK 1.5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4621/
Sun Java JDK 1.6.x
http://secunia.com/product/14273/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun JavaDoc, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when generating HTML
documentation pages and can potentially be exploited to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks on a website that hosts the generated
documentation.
The vulnerability affects JDK 6 and JDK 5.0 Update 11 and earlier for
Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
SOLUTION:
Apply updates and regenerate any "index.html" page that was generated
with an affected version.
JDK 6:
Update to JDK 6 Update 1 or later.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
JDK 5.0:
Update to JDK 5.0 Update 12 or later.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Martin Straka.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102958-1
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