Opera plug-incontext.showDocument() buffer overflow
| opera-plugincontextshowdocument-bo (11280) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Opera is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a buffer overflow. By creating a malicious Java Applet that passes a long URL to the plugincontext.showDocument() function, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and cause the victim's Web browser to crash. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by hosting the malicious Java Applet on a Web site or by sending it to a potential victim within an HTML email.
Platforms Affected:
- Opera, Opera 6.05
- Opera, Opera 7.01
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Feb 10 2003 - 12:05:48 CST, Java-Applet crashes Opera 6.05 and 7.01 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-02/0123.html.
- Opera Web site, Opera Software - The Best Internet Experience at http://www.opera.com/.
- BID-6814: Opera opera.PluginContext Native Method Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2003-1397: The PluginContext object of Opera 6.05 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTTP request containing a long string that gets passed to the ShowDocument method.
Reported:
Feb 10, 2003
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