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Opera Bookmark Large Title Denial of Service Weakness
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17963
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Release Date:
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2005-12-12
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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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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Description:
A weakness has been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The weakness is caused due to an error in the handling of large page titles. This can be exploited by tricking a user into bookmarking a page with an overly long title.
Successful exploitation causes the browser to crash when the affected browser is started up again after an attack, but requires that the Input Method Editor (IME) is installed. Users may have to remove the "autosave.win" file in order to be able to use the affected browser.
Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, using the Network Software Inspector.
Solution:
Update to version 8.51.
http://www.opera.com/download/
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Tatsuya Matsumoto and jp-CERT.
Original Advisory:
Opera:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=821
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