USN-7246-1: jQuery vulnerabilities

30 January 2025

Several security issues were fixed in jquery.

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Releases

Packages

  • jquery - JavaScript library for dynamic web applications

Details

It was discovered that jQuery incorrectly handled parsing untrusted HTML. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04

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