Secunia Advisory SA38820

Opera Buffer Overflow and Information Disclosure
Secunia Advisory SA38820
Release Date 2010-03-04
Last Update 2010-04-21
   
Popularity 22,740 views
Comments 6 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
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 10.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2010-1349 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-1310 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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

1) An error exists when processing HTTP responses having a malformed "Content-Length" header. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly large 64-bit "Content-Length" value, having the higher 32-bit part negative.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 10.50 for Windows. Prior versions may also be affected.

2) An error when parsing XSLT constructs can be exploited to disclose cached content from previously visited web pages.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 10.51.

Solution
Update to version 10.51.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Marcin Ressel (~echo). Additional information provided by Secunia Research.
2) The vendor credits crazypops.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Opera:
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/948/
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/949/

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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Subject: Opera Buffer Overflow and Information Disclosure
 
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genegold RE: Opera "Content-Length" Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Member 5th Mar, 2010 17:56
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Last edited on 5th Mar, 2010 18:05
On its forums, Opera is claiming that the vulnerability is not exploitable and that the report is invalid. See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=... and http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=...
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blog.psi2.de RE: Opera "Content-Length" Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Last edited on 6th Mar, 2010 08:53
"In our testing, DEP mitigates the problem and should protect the system," Opera spokesman Thomas Ford said at The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/05/opera_vuln...

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Visit my Security-Blog:
http://blog.psi2.de/en (English) or
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genegold RE: Opera "Content-Length" Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Member 12th Mar, 2010 00:22
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For Opera's statement on 3/11 about this, see http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2010/03/09/...
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