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| Secunia ID | |
| Release Date |
11 May 2012 |
| Last Change |
02 Aug 2012 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Software |
Opera 11.x |
| Where | |
| Impact |
System accessThis 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. An out-of-bounds write error when parsing the URL can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted URL. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 11.64 and 12.01. |
| Solution |
Update to version 11.64 or 12.01. |
| Reported by |
The vendor credits Andrey Stroganov. |
| Original Advisory |