Vulnerability CVE-2009-2577


Published: 2009-07-22   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Opera 9.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption, and application hang) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome
MustLive
26.07.2009

Type:

CWE-399

(Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Opera -> Opera browser 

 References:
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded

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