CVE-2008-1762

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Opera before 9.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted scaled image pattern in an HTML CANVAS element, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 9.26; 5.0, 5.0-beta2, 5.0-beta3, 5.0-beta4, 5.0-beta5, 5.0-beta6 (+72)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29662
http://secunia.com/advisories/29679
http://secunia.com/advisories/29735
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-14.xml
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/927/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/882/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28585
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1084/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41627
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29662

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