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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2405
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-2405

Description:
Opera 8.01, when the "Arial Unicode MS" font (ARIALUNI.TTF) is installed, does not properly handle extended ASCII characters in the file download dialog box, which allows remote attackers to spoof file extensions and possibly trick users into executing arbitrary code.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21784

ST
  1014592

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA15870

CONFIRM
  http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/802/

BID
  14402


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