Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Opera Web Browser, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Opera Web Browser URL Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22218
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22218/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Opera 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/10615/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Opera Web Browser, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
overly long URLs. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer
overflow by passing an overly long URL (more than 256 bytes) in a
tag.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a
user visits a malicious website.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 9.0 and 9.01 on Windows and
Linux. Version 8.x is reportedly not affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 9.02.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous person and reported via iDefense Labs.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Opera Software:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=848
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=424
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