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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900081
Category:Buffer overflow
Title:Opera Web Browser Multiple Vulnerabilities (Dec 2008) - Windows
Summary:Opera web browser is prone to multiple Vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
Opera web browser is prone to multiple Vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaws are due to

- a buffer overflow error when handling certain text-area contents.

- a memory corruption error when processing certain HTML constructs.

- an input validation error in the feed preview feature when processing URLs.

- an error in the built-in XSLT templates that incorrectly handle escaped
content.

- an error which could be exploited to reveal random data.

- an error when processing SVG images embedded using img tags.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful remote attack could inject arbitrary code, information disclosure,
execute java or plugin content and can even crash the application.

Affected Software/OS:
Opera version prior to 9.63 on Windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to Opera 9.63.

CVSS Score:
9.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5679
Bugtraq: 20081217 n.runs-SA-2008.010 - Opera HTML parsing Code Execution (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml
http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_opera_html_parsing_code_execution.php
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021460
http://secunia.com/advisories/34294
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4791
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5680
Bugtraq: 20081118 Re: Re: Re: Opera 9.6x file:// overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498452/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081119 Re: Opera 9.6x file:// overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498481/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081119 Re: Re: Re: Re: Opera 9.6x file:// overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498499/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081119 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Opera 9.6x file:// overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498517/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081120 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Opera 9.6x file:// overflow (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498543/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021456
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021457
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5681
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021461
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5682
http://osvdb.org/50951
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021462
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5683
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021459
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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