Opera Mail Client Bugs May Let Remote Users Spoof Attachment Types and Inject Arbitrary Scripting Code
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1014943 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1014943
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CVE Reference:
GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 20 2005
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 8.02
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Opera. A remote user may be able to spoof file types and cause a target user to execute arbitrary scripting code.
A remote user can send specially crafted e-mail that, when opened by the target user, may be able to invoke the 'file://' handler to open attached files directly from the target user's cache, without any warning to the target user.
A remote user can send an e-mail with a specially named attachment (that has a period appended to the filename) to spoof the file type. For example, an HTML file can be named to appear to be a different filetype (such as an image file type).
The vendor was notified on September 1, 2005.
Jakob Balle of Secunia Research discovered this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user may be able to spoof an attachment file type. If the target user chooses to open the file attachment, arbitrary scripting code may be executed on the target user's system.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fixed version (8.50), available at:
http://www.opera.com/download/
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Vendor URL: www.opera.com/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error, State error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:06:05 +0200
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Secunia Research: Opera Mail Client Attachment
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Secunia Research 20/09/2005
- Opera Mail Client Attachment Spoofing and Script Insertion -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
Opera 8.02
Prior versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: Script Insertion, Spoofing
Where: From Remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in the Opera Mail
client, which can be exploited by a malicious person to conduct script
insertion attacks and to spoof the name of attached files.
1. Attached files are opened without any warnings directly from the
user's cache directory. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary
JavaScript in context of "file://".
2. Normally, filename extensions are determined by the "Content-Type"
in Opera Mail. However, by appending an additional '.' to the end of
a filename, an HTML file could be spoofed to be e.g. "image.jpg.".
The two vulnerabilities combined may be exploited to conduct script
insertion attacks if the user chooses to view an attachment named
e.g. "image.jpg." e.g. resulting in disclosure of local files.
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4) Solution
Update to version 8.50.
http://www.opera.com/download/
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5) Time Table
01/09/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
20/09/2005 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Jakob Balle, Secunia Research.
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7) References
No references available.
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8) About Secunia
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-42/advisory/
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/
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