Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6419-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 6419-1 - Hong Phat Ly discovered that jQuery UI did not properly manage parameters from untrusted sources, which could lead to arbitrary web script or HTML code injection. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Esben Sparre Andreasen discovered that jQuery UI did not properly handle values from untrusted sources in the Datepicker widget. A remote attacker could possibly …

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