Title: Opera Web Browser Malformed Header Vulnerabilty
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Opera is a freely available web browser with support for multiple platforms.
Opera has difficulties handling broken headers. The code that is implemented to sanitize broken headers is flawed. This is due to a mismatched new/delete[] pair.
A malicious webmaster may be able to modify an http server to send malformed headers which will cause the vulnerable browser to crash.
Affected Products:
- Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.0.0 Linux
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