Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in VMware View, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
VMware View Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39727
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39727/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in VMware View, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed via unspecified parameters to the View Manager 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 vulnerability is reported in VMware View prior to version 3.1.3
build 252693.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.1.3 build 252693.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Alexey Sintsov, Digital Security Research Group
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0008.html
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