Opera 9.6x file:// overflow

[send9 () chiseclabs com]

Hello all -

I don't have time for a fancy advisory format, but I did want to disclose an issue.

Sometime in early October (late September?), around the time Opera 9.6 was released, I noticed that you could get it to 
crash after supplying the file:// handler with ~16,500 characters. I played around with it, but having very little 
memory corruption skillz I wasn't able to do much with it. I did, however, contact Opera through their web submission 
form.

Opera 9.61 was released in late October and still no fix. I contacted Opera using the e-mail address provided by the 
web form to follow up on the bug. Opera 9.62 then came out and still nothing.

I contacted Guido Landi aka k`sOSe to take a look. We determined that the file:// handler cannot be invoked from the 
Internet, but, it does work from a local HTML file. k`sOSe figured out that it was a heap overflow and was able to 
write a PoC for the bug: http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7135

Since Opera doesn't seem to care at all about this bug, I figured it was time to notify the public.

send9 <send9 [at] chiseclabs.com>