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Opera Web Browser DoS attacks on MIME via malformed MIME emails (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Opera Web Browser and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
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.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Opera version 9.51 on Windows.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to higher version of Opera.