CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2405
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Opera 8.01, when the "Arial Unicode MS" font (ARIALUNI.TTF) is installed, does not properly handle extended ASCII characters in the file download dialog box, which allows remote attackers to spoof file extensions and possibly trick users into executing arbitrary code.
Affected configurations
• opera opera browser 8.01
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15870 Broken Link, Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014592 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/802/ Broken Link, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14402 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1251 Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21784 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15870 Broken Link, Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014592 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/802/ Broken Link, Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14402 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1251 Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21784 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry