Vigil@nce: Opera, code execution via DLL Preload
September 2010 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can use a malicious dwmapi.dll DLL in order to execute
code in Opera.
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 14/09/2010
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Opera program loads the dwmapi.dll library when it starts.
However, the library is loaded insecurely. An attacker can thus
use the VIGILANCE-VUL-9879 (https://vigilance.fr/tree/1/9879)
vulnerability to execute code.
An attacker can therefore use a malicious HomeUtils9.dll DLL, in
order to execute code in the context of Opera.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Opera-code-execution-via-DLL-Preload-9929