Opera Web Browser DoS attacks on MIME via malformed MIME emails (Win)

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  3. Opera Web Browser DoS attacks on MIME via malformed MIME emails (Win)
Summary
The host is installed with Opera Web Browser and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation could result in web browser crash. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to higher version of Opera http://www.opera.com/download/
Insight
Flaw is due to improper handling of multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and e-mail messages with many Content-type: message/rfc822 headers.
Affected
Opera version 9.51 on Windows.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Medium Severity
Classification
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