CVE-2006-3199

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Opera 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an A tag with an href attribute with a URL containing a long hostname, which triggers an out-of-bounds operation.

Affected products

Opera Browser: 9.0

References

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=144635
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016359
http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349
http://www.osvdb.org/27510
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437945/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438326/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18585
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2617
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27289
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=144635
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016359
http://www.critical.lt/?vuln/349

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