Description
Opera 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an A tag with an href attribute with a URL containing a long hostname, which triggers an out-of-bounds operation.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Opera 9 - long href Remote Denial of Service EDB-1937 · dos · Jun 21, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20060621 Opera 9 DoS PoC mailing-list
- 27510 vdb-entry
- 1016359 vdb-entry
- opera-href-dos(27289) vdb-entry
- 20060624 Re: Opera 9 DoS PoC mailing-list
- http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=144635
- ADV-2006-2617 vdb-entry
- 18585 vdb-entry
- http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349