Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Opera Floating Point Number Processing Memory Corruption
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37431
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37431/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Opera, which can be exploited
by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when allocating space for
floating point numbers and can be exploited to trigger a memory
corruption when a specially crafted floating point number is
processed.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in versions 9.64 and 10.01. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
The vulnerability is reportedly addressed in the latest RC and will
be fixed in an upcoming stable version.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Maksymilian Arciemowicz and sp3x
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/73
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