Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Opera, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
The first issue is due to a memory corruption error in Macromedia Flash Player, a third party application redistributed with Opera, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted Web page or open a malicious Flash file. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-2317
The second vulnerability is due to an error where the shell script used in Unix / Linux based environments to launch Opera parses shell commands enclosed within backticks in the URL provided via the command line, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to follow a malicious link in an external program (e.g. Thunderbird or Evolution). This issue is similar to FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1794
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by eEye Digital Security, Sec Consult, Peter Zelezny and Jakob Balle.
ChangeLog
2005-11-22 : Initial release
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