PT-2008-6545 · Opera · Opera

Bernhard Brehm + 1 · Published 2008-12-11 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5428

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Opera version 9.51

Description The issue is related to the handling of certain e-mail messages. Specifically, it involves (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to stack consumption or other resource consumption, via a large e-mail message.

Recommendations For Opera version 9.51, consider avoiding the use of the affected e-mail handling functionality until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5428

Affected Products

Opera

References · 5

• 🔥 http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5428 · Security Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded · Note