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Opera Mail Client Attachment Spoofing and Script Insertion
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16645
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Release Date:
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2005-09-20
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Last Update:
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2005-09-27
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Popularity:
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26,391 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
Unknown
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Opera 8.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-3006
CVE-2005-3007
CVE-2005-3059
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Description:
Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in the Opera Mail client, which can be exploited by a malicious person to conduct script insertion attacks and to spoof the name of attached files.
1. Attached files are opened without any warnings directly from the user's cache directory. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript in context of "file://".
2. Normally, filename extensions are determined by the "Content-Type" in Opera Mail. However, by appending an additional '.' to the end of a filename, an HTML file could be spoofed to be e.g. "image.jpg.".
The two vulnerabilities combined may be exploited to conduct script insertion attacks if the user chooses to view an attachment named e.g. "image.jpg." e.g. resulting in disclosure of local files.
The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in Opera version 8.02, prior versions may also be vulnerable.
NOTE: Some other security issues with unknown impacts have also been reported by the vendor.
Solution:
Update to version 8.50.
http://www.opera.com/download/
Provided and/or discovered by:
Jakob Balle, Secunia Research.
Changelog:
2005-09-23: Added CVE references.
2005-09-27: Added CVE reference. Added note from vendor in "Description" section.
Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-42/
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