National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4210

Overview

Opera before 8.51, when running on Windows with Input Method Editor (IME) installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent application crash) by bookmarking a site with a long title.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 15813

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15813

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17963

Type: Advisory; Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17963

External Source: XF

Name: opera-bookmark-title-dos(23549)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/23549

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-2846

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2846

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 21641

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/21641

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=821

Hyperlink:http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=821