Denial of service vulnerability in Opera via a malformed image (dpkg)ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:8314 | Date: (C)2013-01-07 (M)2022-10-10 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
The host is installed with Opera before 12.12 and is prone to denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly allocate memory for GIF images. Successful exploitation could allow a remote attacker to determine the existence of arbitrary local files via vectors involving web script in an error page.