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Secunia Advisory SA37182

Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA37182
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2009-10-28
Last Update 2009-11-09
   
Popularity 7,384 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Opera 10.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-3831 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3832 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, conduct spoofing attacks, or compromise a user's system.

1) An error when processing domain names can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) An error when running scripts on the feed subscription page can be exploited to disclose feed information or automatically subscribe to a feed.

3) An error when processing web fonts on Windows can be exploited to change the font of the address field and display an arbitrary domain name as an address.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 10.01.


Solution
Update to version 10.01.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) The vendor credits Chris Weber of Casaba Security.
2) Inferno
3) The vendor credits John Daggett.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Opera:
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/938/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/939/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/940/

Inferno:
http://securethoughts.com/2009/10/hijacking-operas-native-page-using-malicious-rss-payloads/

Deep Links
Links available to Secunia VIM customers


Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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