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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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