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Secunia Advisory SA20787

Opera JPEG Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA20787
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Release Date 2006-06-23
Last Update 2006-07-06
   
Popularity 23,969 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact DoS
System access
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 8.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-3198 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

VigilantMinds has reported a vulnerability in Opera browser, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow when processing JPEG images and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted JPEG image.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 8.54. Prior versions may also be affected.


Solution
Upgrade to version 9.0.

Provided and/or discovered by
Chris Ries, VigilantMinds.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
VigilantMinds:
http://www.vigilantminds.com/advi_detail.php?id=45

Opera Software:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=834

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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