SecurityAlert : 199 CVE : CVE-2005-3750 SecurityRisk : High (About) Remote Exploit : Yes Local Exploit : No Exploit Available : No Credit : Peter Zelezny & Jakob Balle & Secunia Research Published : 23.11.2005
Affected Software :
Opera x <= 8.x on Unix / Linux based environments.
- Opera Command Line URL Shell Command Injection -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
Rating: Highly Critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Opera, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to the shell script used to launch
Opera parsing shell commands that are enclosed within backticks in
the URL provided via the command line. This can e.g. be exploited to
execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into following a
malicious link in an external application which uses Opera as the
default browser (e.g. the mail client Evolution on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4).
This vulnerability can only be exploited on Unix / Linux based
environments.
This vulnerability is a variant of:
http://secunia.com/SA16869
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