Opera GIF Image Handling Buffer Underflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 7 Dec 2012 Release Date: 6 Dec 2012 5565 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Browsers

A vulnerability has been identified in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when decoding image data and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer underflow via a specially crafted GIF image.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Note: No patch is currently avaliable.

Impact

Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

Opera 12.x

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

No patch is currently avaliable

Vulnerability Identifier

No CVE information is available

Source

Secunia