PT-2005-3236 · Opera · Opera

Published 2005-07-19 · Updated 2022-02-28 · CVE-2005-2309

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Opera version 8.01

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by using a crafted JPEG image. This has been demonstrated using an example image.

Recommendations: For Opera version 8.01, consider avoiding the use of potentially malicious JPEG images until a fix is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the handling of JPEG images to minimize the risk of CPU consumption.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-2309

Affected Products

Opera

References · 4

• 🔥 http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/crash · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/405298 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2309 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/405524/30/0/threaded · Note