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CVE-2008-5178

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Entered Topic
2008-12-19 opera -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2008-5178
Phase Assigned(20081120)

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Opera 9.62 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file:// URI. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2008-5680.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20081117 Opera 9.6x file:// overflow
MILW0RM 7135
CONFIRM http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/922/
GENTOO GLSA-200903-30
BID 32323
SECUNIA 34294
VUPEN ADV-2008-3183
OSVDB 49882
SECUNIA 32752
XF opera-filehandler-bo(46653)

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