Opera Truncated Dialog Box Vulnerability
RISK: Medium Risk
TYPE: Clients - Browsers
A vulnerability has been identified in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when displaying a dialog box's buttons within a small window. This can be exploited to download and execute a file by tricking a user into clicking on a misleading button within an underlying page.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but may require a certain amount of social engineering.
Impact
- Remote Code Execution
System / Technologies affected
- Opera 11.x
- Opera 12.x
Solutions
Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.
- Update to version 12.02 or 11.67 (Mac OS X only).
Vulnerability Identifier
- No CVE information is available
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