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Opera 9 DoS PoC

Critical Security advisory #009 [http://www.critical.lt] 
Advisory can be reached: http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349 

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Product: Opera 9 (8.x is immune to this) 
Vuln type: Denial of Service 
Risk: moderated 
Attack type: Remote  

Details: 

Vulnerability can be exploited by using a large value in a href tag to create 
an out-of-bounds memory access. 

Proof Of Concept DoS exploit:  
http://www.critical.lt/research/opera_die_happy.html 

Research was originaly done by Povilas Tum&#279;nas a.k.a. N9 

P.S. To Opera Team, we like your browser and want it to be as good as possible.