Thursday, October 19, 2006

Opera Web Browser Vulnerability

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.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 9.0 and 9.01 on Windows and Linux. Version 8.x is reportedly not affected.

Secunia Advisory: HERE


Update to version 9.02 HERE.

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