| Secunia ID |
SA30937
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| CVE-ID |
CVE-2008-3079
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| Release Date |
03 Jul 2008
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| Last Change |
20 Aug 2008
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| Criticality |
Highly Critical
Typically used for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to system compromise. Successful exploitation does not normally require any interaction but there are no known exploits available at the time of disclosure.
Such vulnerabilities can exist in services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP or in client systems like email programs or browsers.
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| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch
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| Software |
Opera 5.x
Opera 6.x
Opera 7.x
Opera 8.x
Opera 9.x
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| Where |
From remote
"From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network.
This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
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| 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.
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| Description |
A vulnerability has been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of command line parameters received when the application is registered as a protocol handler. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into clicking a specially crafted, incorrectly encoded URL. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 9.51.
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| Solution |
Update to version 9.51.
http://www.opera.com/download/
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| Reported by |
The vendor credits Billy Rios.
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| Original Advisory |
Opera:
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/951/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/891/
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