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>> Opera Browser HTML "href" Attribute Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Opera Browser HTML "href" Attribute Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2617
CVE ID : CVE-2006-3199
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-06-30
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A vulnerability has been identified in Opera, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an invalid memory access when handling an overly long "HREF" attribute, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application by tricking a user into visiting a malicious web page.
Affected Products
Opera version 9.0 and prior
Solution
This issue will reportedly be fixed in the next release of Opera.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2617
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=835
http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Povilas Tumënas
ChangeLog
2006-06-30 : Initial release
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