USN-5181-1: jQuery UI vulnerability

9 September 2022

Several security issues were fixed in jQuery UI.

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Releases

Packages

  • jqueryui - JavaScript UI library for dynamic web applications

Details

It was discovered that jQuery UI did not properly validate the values from
untrusted sources. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a crash or
possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue affected only Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and
Ubuntu 20.4 ESM. (CVE-2021-41184)

It was discovered that jQuery UI checkboxradio widget did not properly decode
certain values from HTML entities. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
generate a cross-site scripting(XSS) attack, resulting in a crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-31160)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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