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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900803
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Opera Unicode String Denial Of Service Vulnerability - Windows
Summary:Opera is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Opera is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
- Error caused by calling the 'window.print' function in a loop aka a
'printing DoS attack'.

- CPU consumption issue exists when a series of automatic submissions
of a form containing a KEYGEN element.

- Error exists when application fails to handle user supplied input into
the 'write' method via a long Unicode string argument.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation lets the attacker cause memory or CPU consumption,
resulting in Denial of Service condition.

Affected Software/OS:
Opera version 9.52 and prior on Windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to Opera Version 10 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2577
Bugtraq: 20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-7245
Bugtraq: 20090908 Re: DoS vulnerability in Google Chrome (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506328/100/100/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/2456/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6350
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3269
http://websecurity.com.ua/3194/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6358
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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