PT-2008-6731 · Opera · Opera

Published 2008-12-19 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5679

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Opera versions prior to 9.63

Description The issue is related to the HTML parsing engine, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web pages. This is achieved by triggering an invalid pointer calculation and heap corruption.

Recommendations For versions prior to 9.63, update to version 9.63 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5679

Affected Products

Opera

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5679 · Security Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34294 · Note
• http://opera.com/support/kb/view/921 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021460 · Note
• http://nruns.com/security_advisory_opera_html_parsing_code_execution.php · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4791 · Note
• http://opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963 · Note