The host is installed with Opera Web Browser and is prone to select object denial of service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will let the attacker crash the browser leading to denial of service. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to opera version 10 beta 1 or later, For updates refer to http://www.opera.com/download

The flaw is due to an improper boundary check while passing data into the select() method and can be exploited by passing a large integer value resulting in memory exhaustion.

Opera version 9.64 and prior on Mac OS X

• http://www.g-sec.lu/one-bug-to-rule-them-all.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/504969/100/0/threaded
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/52874

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Updated on 2017-03-28