Opera Web Browser up to 7.20 Printing window.print resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Opera Web Browser up to 7.20. Affected by this issue is the function window.print of the component Printing. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-7245. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Opera Web Browser up to 7.20 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function window.print of the component Printing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Opera 9.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unusable browser) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

The weakness was disclosed 09/18/2009 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-7245 since 09/18/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (12509). The entries VDB-50125, VDB-50128, VDB-50127 and VDB-50126 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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OpenVAS ID: 900804
OpenVAS Name: Opera Unicode String Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

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03/18/2015 +2007 days 🔍
02/20/2025 +3627 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: opera.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2008-7245 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-7245
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-50117

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scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 02/20/2025 13:57
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (49), 12/17/2017 10:06 (6), 02/20/2025 13:57 (27)
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