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Opera URL Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA49081

Release Date

11 May 2012

Last Change

02 Aug 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Opera 11.x
Opera 12.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.

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

http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/1016/