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Opera for Windows URL Handling Code Execution Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA30937

CVE-ID

CVE-2008-3079

Release Date

03 Jul 2008

Last Change

20 Aug 2008

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Opera 5.x
Opera 6.x
Opera 7.x
Opera 8.x
Opera 9.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of command line parameters received when the application is registered as a protocol handler. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into clicking a specially crafted, incorrectly encoded URL.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 9.51.

Solution

Update to version 9.51.
http://www.opera.com/download/

Reported by

The vendor credits Billy Rios.

Original Advisory

Opera:
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/951/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/891/