Various versions of the Opera web browser are vulnerable to an issue which can allow a remote attacker to gain control over a vulnerable system if a victim is convinced to right-click on a malicious torrent file in the transfer manager. The underlying cause is poor handling of boundary conditions.

Description:

Various versions of the Opera web browser are vulnerable to an issue which can allow a remote attacker to gain control over a vulnerable system if a victim is convinced to right-click on a malicious torrent file in the transfer manager.

Mitigation:

Update to Opera 9.21 and avoid right clicking of torrent files in the transfer manager.

Updates:

http://www.opera.com/download

Source:

http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/860/

Exploits:

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