Overview
The Opera Web Browser fails to properly process overly long URLs. This vulnerability may allow arbitrary code execution.
Description
Opera is a multi-platform web browser that is available for a range of operating systems and embedded Internet products. Opera contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the way that it parses tags containing long URLs. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker with the ability to construct a web page containing a specially crafted malicious tag and the ability to coerce an Opera user into visiting the page. |
Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable version of Opera or cause the browser to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition. |
Solution
Update Opera has released an update to address this issue. See Opera Advisory 848 for more details. |
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
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References
Acknowledgements
This vulnerability was reported in Opera Advisory 848 . Opera credits iDefense Labs for reporting this issue.
This document was written by Chris Taschner.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2006-4819 |
| Severity Metric: | 10.14 |
| Date Public: | 2006-10-17 |
| Date First Published: | 2006-10-24 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2006-10-24 19:26 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 14 |