Definition

Denial of service in Opera 9.52 due to failure to restrict the execution of mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL.

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11664

Opera 9.52 executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images a related issue to CVE-2010-0181.

Family:

windows

Status:

ACCEPTED

Platform(s):

Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Class:

vulnerability

Reference(s):

CVE-2010-1989

Product(s):

Opera Browser