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Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 7 Nov 2012 12:53 Release Date: 7 Nov 2012 5309 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Clients - Browsers

TYPE: Browsers

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Opera, where some have unknown impacts and other can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and compromise a user's system.

  1. An unspecified error when handling CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) requests can be exploited to bypass the same origin policy and e.g. disclose sensitive information from another domain.
  2. An error when handling Data URIs can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
  3. An error when handling SVG images can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Impact

  • Cross-Site Scripting
  • Security Restriction Bypass

System / Technologies affected

  • Opera versions prior to 12.10.

Solutions

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

  • Update to version 12.10.

Vulnerability Identifier

  • No CVE information is available

Source


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