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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800049
Category:General
Title:Opera Web Browser Command Execution and XSS Vulnerabilities - Linux
Summary:Opera Web Browser is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
Opera Web Browser is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
Flaws are due to:

- certain parameters passed to the History Search functionality are not
properly sanitised before being used.

- an error exists in the handling of javascript URLs in the Links panel.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful remote attack could inject arbitrary HTML and script code,
launch cross site scripting attacks on user's browser session when malicious data is being viewed.

Affected Software/OS:
Opera version prior to 9.62 on Linux.

Solution:
Upgrade to Opera 9.62 or later.

CVSS Score:
9.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4794
BugTraq ID: 31991
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31991
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-01.xml
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021128
http://secunia.com/advisories/32538
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2008:023 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html
XForce ISS Database: opera-historysearch-command-execution(46219)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46219
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4795
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021127
XForce ISS Database: opera-linkspanel-xss(46220)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46220
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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