Newsfeed prompt can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code

When Opera encounters a newsfeed source on a Web page, it prompts to add the source as a newsfeed. A script can manipulate the feed source in a way that can cause Opera to crash. The crash is caused by an erroneous memory access. To inject code, additional techniques will have to be employed...

Feed links can link to local files

As a security precaution, Opera does not allow Web pages to link to files on the user's local disk. However, a flaw exists that allows Web pages to link to feed source files on the user's computer. Suitable detection of JavaScript events and appropriate manipulation can unreliably allow a script ...

Insecure pages can show incorrect security information

When insecure pages load content from secure sites into a frame, they can cause Opera to incorrectly report the insecure site as being secure. The padlock icon will incorrectly be shown, and the security information dialog will state that the connection is secure, but without any certificate...

Specially crafted addresses can execute arbitrary code

If a malicious page redirects Opera to a specially crafted address URL, it can cause Opera to crash. Given sufficient address content, the crash could cause execution of code controlled by the attacking page...

Vulnerability in createSVGTransformFromMatrix (JavaScript, SVG)

Passing an incorrect object to createSVGTransformFromMatrixcan crash Opera and enable arbitrary code execution. Users who have disabled JavaScript are not affected...

History Search can reveal browsing history

Certain constructs are not escaped correctly by Opera's History Search results. These can be used to inject scripts into the page, which can then be used to look through the user's browsing history, including the contents of the pages they have visited. These may contain sensitive information...

Insecure pages can show incorrect security information – Opera Security Advisories

Insecure pages can show incorrect security information – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 16, 2008 Severity Less Severe Problem Description When insecure pages load content from secure sites into a frame, they can cause Opera to incorrectly report the insecure site as being secure...

Registering Opera as a protocol handler can allow it to be used to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories

Registering Opera as a protocol handler can allow it to be used to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 16, 2008 Severity Extremely Severe Problem Description When an application attempts to access a URL that uses a protocol that it does not understand, it may...

Malformed bitmaps can reveal old data from random places in memory – Opera Security Advisories

Malformed bitmaps can reveal old data from random places in memory – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 16, 2008 Severity Moderately Severe Problem Description Specially malformed bitmap images can cause Opera to render the image using a palette made up from uninitialized memory. Usi...

A JPEG image with a malformed header can crash Opera – Opera Security Advisories

A JPEG image with a malformed header can crash Opera – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 16, 2008 Summary A JPEG image with a malformed header can crash Opera, and causearbitrary code to be run. Severity Moderate Problem description A specially crafted DHT marker in the JPEG file...

Sites can change framed content on other sites

Scripts are able to change the addresses of framed pages that come from the same site. Due to a flaw in the way that Opera checks what frames can be changed, a site can change the address of frames on other sites inside any window that it has opened. This allows sites to open pages from other...

Opera Web Browser 9.51 DoS Vulnerability - Windows

Opera Web Browser is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Opera < 9.63 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting – Opera Security Advisories

Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 15, 2008 Severity Highly Severe Problem Description Built-in XSLT templates incorrectly handle escaped content and can cause it to be treated as markup. If a site accepts content from untruste...

Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds – Opera Security Advisories

Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 15, 2008 Severity Highly Severe Problem Description When Opera is previewing a news feed, some scripted URLs are not correctly blocked. These can execute scripts which ar...

HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories

HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 15, 2008 Severity Extremely Severe Problem Description Certain HTML constructs can cause the resulting DOM to change unexpectedly, which triggers a crash. To inject code, additional...

Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories

Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 15, 2008 Severity Extremely Severe Problem Description Manipulating certain text-area contents can cause a buffer overflow, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code...

Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories

Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | December 15, 2008 Severity Highly Severe Problem Description Exceptionally long host names in file: URLs can cause a buffer overflow, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code. Remot...

HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code

Certain HTML constructs can cause the resulting DOM to change unexpectedly, which triggers a crash. To inject code, additional techniques will have to be employed...

Design/Logic Flaw

Opera 9.51 on Windows XP does not properly handle 1 multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly 2 e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption or other resource consumption via...