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Secunia Advisory SA10041

Opera HREF Buffer Management Error
Secunia Advisory SA10041
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Release Date 2003-10-21
Last Update 2003-11-20
   
Popularity 12,874 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Opera 7.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0870 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Opera allowing malicious web sites and emails to crash the browser.

The problem is that Opera fails to handle server names with a large number of "%" in "HREF" tags. Web sites and emails can exploit this to cause Opera to crash.

This affects Opera 7.20 and prior.


Solution
This has been fixed in Opera version 7.21:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Jesse Burns, @stake

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Opera HREF Escaped Server Name Overflow
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a102003-1.txt

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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