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>> Adobe RoboHelp Data Processing Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : Adobe RoboHelp Data Processing Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0537
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0642
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-02-13


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A vulnerability has been identified in Adobe RoboHelp, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by unspecified input validation errors when processing malformed URLs passed to files generated by RoboHelp, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected site.

Affected Products

Adobe RoboHelp 6
Adobe RoboHelp 7

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-05.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0537
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-05.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Tavis Ormandy (Google).

ChangeLog

2008-02-13 : Initial release

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