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Opera HREF Buffer Management Error
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10041
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Release Date:
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2003-10-21
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Last Update:
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2003-11-20
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Popularity:
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11,124 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Opera 7.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2003-0870
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Opera allowing malicious web sites and emails to crash the browser.
The problem is that Opera fails to handle server names with a large number of "%" in "HREF" tags. Web sites and emails can exploit this to cause Opera to crash.
This affects Opera 7.20 and prior.
Solution:
This has been fixed in Opera version 7.21:
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml
Provided and/or discovered by:
Jesse Burns, @stake
Changelog:
2003-11-20: Added CVE number.
Original Advisory:
Opera HREF Escaped Server Name Overflow
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a102003-1.txt
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