USN-6419-1

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USN-6419-1

Summary: jqueryui vulnerabilities

Details: 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 (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7103) Esben Sparre Andreasen discovered that jQuery UI did not properly handle values from untrusted sources in the Datepicker widget. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183) It was discovered that jQuery UI did not properly validate values from untrusted sources. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41184) It was discovered that the jQuery UI checkboxradio widget did not properly decode certain values from HTML entities. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-31160)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6419-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7103, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-41182, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-41183, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-41184, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-31160