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Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 21 Nov 2012 10:47 Release Date: 21 Nov 2012 4254 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Clients - Browsers

TYPE: Browsers

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information and compromise a user's system.

  1. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling HTTP responses and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code.
  2. The weakness is caused due to an error when handling error pages and can be exploited to determine the presence of local files.

Impact

  • Remote Code Execution
  • Information Disclosure

System / Technologies affected

  • Opera versions prior to 12.11

Solutions

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

  • Update to version 12.11.

Vulnerability Identifier

  • No CVE information is available

Source


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