Buffer overflow in Opera Browser

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.061 (92.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Opera Opera_browser — versions 6.05, 7.0, 7.01
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)