Opera 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an A tag with an href attribute with a URL containing a long hostname, which triggers an out-of-bounds operation.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437945/100/0/threaded | mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
| http://www.osvdb.org/27510 | vdb entry broken link |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1016359 | vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27289 | vdb entry third party advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438326/100/0/threaded | mailing list vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
| http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=144635 | broken link |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2617 | vdb entry broken link |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18585 | exploit vdb entry third party advisory broken link |
| http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349 | third party advisory exploit |