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Opera Browser : Two Vulnerabilities Discovered...

Friday, 5. January 2007, 20:42:34

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Opera Browser : Two Vulnerabilities Discovered...

Secunia Advisory: SA23613

Release Date: 2007-01-05

Critical: Highly critical

Impact: System access

Where: From remote

Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software: Opera 9.x


Description :

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

  • An unspecified error when processing JPEG files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a JPEG file with a specially crafted DHT marker.
  • An error within createSVGTransformFromMatrix() can be exploited by passing an incorrect object to the said function.
  • Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allow execution of arbitrary code.

    • Solution :

    Update to version 9.10.

    Provided and/or discovered by :

    The vendor credits iDefense Labs.

    Original Advisory :

    http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=851

    http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=852

    Go to Secunia website.

    Update Opera browser now here.

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