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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800081
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Opera Web Browser 9.51 DoS Vulnerability - Windows
Summary:Opera Web Browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Opera Web Browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Flaw is due to improper handling of multipart/mixed e-mail messages
with many MIME parts and e-mail messages with many Content-type: message/rfc822 headers.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation could result in web browser crash.

Affected Software/OS:
Opera version 9.51 on Windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to higher version of Opera.

CVSS Score:
4.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5428
Bugtraq: 20081208 DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20081209 Re: DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded
http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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