CVE-2008-4197 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4197
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Description: Opera before 9.52 on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, when processing custom shortcut and menu commands, can produce argument strings that contain uninitialized memory, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct other attacks via vectors related to activation of a shortcut.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44552 ST 1020720 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32538 Secunia Advisory: SA31549 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/24/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/19/2 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-01.xml CONFIRM http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/894/ http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/solaris/952/ http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/952/ http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/952/ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235298 http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/freebsd/952/ BID 30768

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