CVE-2008-5679
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
The HTML parsing engine in Opera before 9.63 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web pages that trigger an invalid pointer calculation and heap corruption.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5650)
- Published
- December 19, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5650 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
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References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34294
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4791
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_opera_html_parsing_code_execution.php
- http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/
- http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/921/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021460
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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