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Opera Command Execution and Cross-Site Scripting
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA32452
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Release Date:
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2008-10-30
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Last Update:
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2008-11-03
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Popularity:
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4,893 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Opera 5.x
Opera 6.x
Opera 7.x
Opera 8.x
Opera 9.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-4794
CVE-2008-4795
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or potentially to compromise a user's system.
1) Certain parameters passed to the "History Search" functionality are not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which is executed in a user's browser session when the malicious data is being viewed.
Successful exploitation allows e.g. changing Opera's preferences, which can further be exploited to execute arbitrary commands.
This is related to vulnerability #1 in:
SA32299
2) An error exists in the handling of javascript URLs in the Links panel, which can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks with pages containing frames.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 9.62.
Solution:
Update to version 9.62 (see the vendor's advisory for details).
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Reported by Stefano Di Paola.
2) Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2008-10-31: Added reporter link to the "Original Advisory" section.
2008-11-03: Updated credits section.
2008-11-03: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Opera:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/906/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/907/
Aviv Raff:
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/10/30/AdifferentOpera.asp
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