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Opera Web Browser 9 with its vulnerable IRC
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| The Web Opera Browser presents in its last version known up to today, a fault in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients which derives in a service denial, also known as DoS. |
The malicious user which successfully explodes this vulnerability will freeze the application and make it to stop working. This kind of problem doesn’t become really important, but it will now in any way welcome.
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| In the Internet, there is s concept trial which shows the functioning of the fault. AS expected, there exists the possibility that previous to the 9th Opera versions are prone to be also attacked. |
By the moment there is no official solutions; up to now the user must be very careful and witty when a situation fall upon him; needles to say that this Web browser has gained the confidence of an important number of internauts.
Related: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19491/info
Opera Web Browser IRC Chat Client Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability.
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