CVE-2007-6524

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Opera before 9.25 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive memory contents via a crafted bitmap (BMP) file, as demonstrated using a CANVAS element and JavaScript in an HTML document for copying these contents from 9.50 beta, a related issue to CVE-2008-0420.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 9.24; 5.0, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-beta3, 5.0-beta4, 5.0-beta5, 5.0-beta6 (+70)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202770
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/42691
http://secunia.com/advisories/28169
http://secunia.com/advisories/28290
http://secunia.com/advisories/28314
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-22.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019435
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/925/
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/925/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/876/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488264/100/0/threaded

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