CVE-2009-2577

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Opera 9.52 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption, and application hang) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479.

Affected products

Opera Browser: through 9.52; 7.0, 7.23, 7.53, 7.54, 7.60, 8.0 (+16)

References

http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded

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