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Opera hit by buffer overflow glitch
Published October 20th, 2006 in All Categories, Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Opera
Opera users are being urged to upgrade to a new version of the browser following the discovery of
a potentially serious security bug.
The flaw means that vulnerable versions of the browsers will crash when visiting maliciously constructed web sites containing overly long (more than 256 bytes) URLs. Successful exploitation of this heap-based buffer overflow flaw creates a means for hackers to load malware onto the machines of visiting surfers.
The vulnerability affects versions 9.0 and 9.01 of Opera on Windows and Linux. Opera hit by buffer overflow glitch | Channel Register
