Opera Vulnerability Identified

by certifiedbug on March 6, 2010

in Browser

A vulnerability rated as critical has been identified in Opera 10.50 and prior versions.

The buffer overflow error when processing malformed HTTP “Content-Length:” headers could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected browser or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a web page hosted on a malicious web server.

Confirmed by VUPEN with Opera version 10.50 on Windows XP SP3.

Reference: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0529

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