Friday, March 5, 2010

Unpatched Vulnerability In Opera

There has been found a new vulnerability in Opera web browser. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing malformed HTTP "Content-Length:" headers. By exploiting the vulnerability an attacker could make browser crash or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a web page hosted on a malicious web server.

Affected are Opera 10.50 and earlier versions. At the moment, there is no patch available. Opera users should avoid visiting untrusted sites and clicking dubious links.

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