CVE-2008-4197 (GCVE-0-2008-4197)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-09-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:08
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Opera before 9.52 on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, when processing custom shortcut and menu commands, can produce argument strings that contain uninitialized memory, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct other attacks via vectors related to activation of a shortcut.
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