Opera 9.6x file:// overflow
Hello all -
I don't have time for a fancy advisory format, but I did want to disclose an
issue.
Sometime in early October (late September?), around the time Opera 9.6 was
released, I noticed that you could get it to crash after supplying the file://
handler with ~16,500 characters. I played around with it, but having very
little memory corruption skillz I wasn't able to do much with it. I did,
however, contact Opera through their web submission form.
Opera 9.61 was released in late October and still no fix. I contacted Opera
using the e-mail address provided by the web form to follow up on the bug.
Opera 9.62 then came out and still nothing.
I contacted Guido Landi aka k`sOSe to take a look. We determined that the
file:// handler cannot be invoked from the Internet, but, it does work from a
local HTML file. k`sOSe figured out that it was a heap overflow and was able to
write a PoC for the bug: http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7135
Since Opera doesn't seem to care at all about this bug, I figured it was time
to notify the public.
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