Secunia Research: Opera Command Line URL Shell Command Injection
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Secunia Research 22/11/2005
- 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
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1) Affected Software
Opera 8.x on Unix / Linux based environments.
Prior versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
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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4) Solution
Update to version 8.51.
http://www.opera.com/download/
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5) Time Table
22/09/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
22/09/2005 - Initial vendor reply.
22/11/2005 - Vendor released patches.
22/11/2005 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Originally discovered by:
Peter Zelezny
Discovered in Opera by:
Jakob Balle, Secunia Research
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7) References
Secunia Advisory SA16869:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16869/
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-57/advisory/
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
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