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Opera 9 DoS PoC


From: N9 () critical lt
Date: 21 Jun 2006 03:39:09 -0000

Critical Security advisory #009 [http://www.critical.lt] 
Advisory can be reached: http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349 

We are: N9, bigb0u, cybergoth, iglOo, mircia, Povilas  
Shouts to Lithuanian girlz! and our friends ;] 

Product: Opera 9 (8.x is immune to this) 
Vuln type: Denial of Service 
Risk: moderated 
Attack type: Remote  

Details: 

Vulnerability can be exploited by using a large value in a href tag to create an out-of-bounds memory access. 

Proof Of Concept DoS exploit:  
http://www.critical.lt/research/opera_die_happy.html 

Research was originaly done by Povilas Tumėnas a.k.a. N9 

P.S. To Opera Team, we like your browser and want it to be as good as possible. 


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