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TITLE:
Opera Buffer Overflow and Local File Detection

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51331

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http://secunia.com/advisories/51331/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=51331

RELEASE DATE:
2012-11-20

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in Opera, which can
be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive
information and compromise a user's system.

1) The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling HTTP
responses and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer
overflow.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

2) The weakness is caused due to an error when handling error pages
and can be exploited to determine the presence of local files.

The weakness and the vulnerability are reported in versions prior to
12.11.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 12.11.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1211/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1036/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1037/

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