Description
Opera 9.64 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document containing a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags. NOTE: it was later reported that 9.52 is also affected.
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 9.64 - 7400 nested elements XML Parsing Remote Crash EDB-8320 · dos · Mar 30, 2009 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 8320 exploit
- opera-xml-dos(49522) vdb-entry
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
- SUSE-SR:2009:015 vendor-advisory
- 34298 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5432 vdb-entry signature