Vulnerability in Opera
CVE-2008-5679
The HTML parsing engine in Opera before 9.63 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web pages that trigger an invalid pointer calculation and heap corruption.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.033 (88.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Opera — versions 5..10, 5.0, 5.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4791 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.opera.com/support/kb/view/921/
- secunia.com/advisories/34294 (third-party-advisory)
- www.nruns.com/security_advisory_opera_html_parsing_code_execution.php
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml (vendor-advisory)