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jquery: cross-site scripting

Package(s):jquery CVE #(s):CVE-2011-4969
Created:February 14, 2013 Updated:March 13, 2013
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that jQuery incorrectly handled selecting elements using location.hash, resulting in a possible cross-site scripting (XSS) issue. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted page, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1722-1 2013-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2013-1277 2013-03-08
Fedora FEDORA-2013-1286 2013-03-08

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