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Opera Download Dialog Spoofing and "setRequestHeader()" Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15870  
Release Date: 2005-07-28
Last Update: 2005-09-30

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Opera 8.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-2405 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered and reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, disclose sensitive information, and trick users into executing malicious files.

1) The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of extended ASCII codes in the download dialog. This can be exploited to spoof the file extension in the file download dialog via a specially crafted "Content-Disposition" HTTP header.

Successful exploitation may result in users being tricked into executing a malicious file via the download dialog, but requires that the "Arial Unicode MS" font (ARIALUNI.TTF) has been installed on the system.

NOTE: The "Arial Unicode MS" font is installed with various Microsoft Office distributions.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 8.01. Other versions may also be affected.

2) An unspecified input validation error where newlines passed to the "setRequestHeader()" function is not properly sanitised, can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and disclose user credentials.

This may be related to:
SA16942

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 8.0.2.

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Solution:
Update to version 8.02.
http://www.opera.com/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Andreas Sandblad, Secunia Research.
2) The vendor credits Yutaka OIWA.

Changelog:
2005-08-04: Added link to original advisory.
2005-08-05: Added CVE reference.
2005-09-30: Added information about the "setRequestHeader()" vulnerability.

Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-25/advisory/

Other References:
SA16942:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16942/



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