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Sun JDK JavaDoc Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA25769  
Release Date: 2007-06-29
Last Update: 2007-07-04

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Sun Java JDK 1.5.x
Sun Java JDK 1.6.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-3503 (Secunia mirror)

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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.

Changelog:
2007-07-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102958-1



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