Secunia Logo  


Secunia PSI WorldMap
 
Opera Command Line URL Shell Command Injection
Secunia Advisory: SA16907
Release Date: 2005-11-22
Last Update: 2005-12-02
Popularity: 36,556 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Opera 7.x
Opera 8.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities


Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Description:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch Opera parsing shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line. This can e.g. be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into following a malicious link in an external application which uses Opera as the default browser (e.g. the mail client Evolution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4).

This vulnerability can only be exploited on Unix / Linux based environments.

This vulnerability is a variant of:
SA16869

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 8.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Other versions and platforms may also be affected.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability // 70 views
2. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities // 45 views
3. Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities // 19 views
4. Microsoft PowerPoint OutlineTextRefAtom Parsing Vulnerability // 18 views
5. Zeroboard Two Vulnerabilities // 17 views
6. Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities // 17 views
7. Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities // 15 views
8. Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability // 15 views
9. Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability // 14 views
10. Microsoft XML Core Services Multiple Vulnerabilities // 14 views