Resource exhaustion in Opera Browser

CVE-2004-1201

Opera 7.54 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory exhaustion), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.032 (86.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Opera Opera_browser
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Mailing List)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Mailing List)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)