Secunia Advisory SA8272

Opera execution of arbitrary code
Secunia Advisory SA8272
Release Date 2003-03-12
Last Update 2003-03-13
   
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Criticality level Extremely criticalExtremely critical
Impact 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 6.x
Opera 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description
Opera has been found vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the handling of filenames when showing the "Download Dialog" box.

The problem is that very long filenames are handled incorrectly. This allows a malicious website to create a filename that causes a buffer overflow which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Exploits are in the wild for Windows.

Exploitation does not require user interaction as websites can spawn the "Download Dialog" automatically.

Solution
Upgrade to version 7.0.3.

Provided and/or discovered by
nesumin

Changelog
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Deep Links
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