USN-1250-1: Empathy vulnerabilities

28 October 2011

Empathy could be made to run programs or display webpages via specially crafted nicknames.

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Releases

Packages

  • empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client

Details

It was discovered that a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in
the Adium theme allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary javascript
or HTML via a crafted nickname in XMPP group conversations.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to
make all the necessary changes.

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