Title : Opera Browser Security Update Fixes URL Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4066 CVE ID : CVE-2006-4819
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-10-17
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Opera, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a heap overflow error when processing an overly long URL (e.g. embedded in an "iframe" tag), which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable browser or execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted Web page.
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