Opera Software on Monday issued Opera 10.10 (Opera Unite) which fixes an “extremely severe” heap buffer overflow vulnerability that could cause the browser to freeze or terminate or lead to a crash that could be used to execute code, Opera said. The updated browser also fixes a separate “highly severe” issue with scripting error messages that could allow cross-site scripting, as well as a “moderately severe” issue, of which details will be disclosed at a later date. — AM
Included in the exposed dataset labeled "PDL" were individuals' full names, email addresses, phone numbers, location data, professional summaries, and skills, as well as education and employment histories.
Attackers could leverage the issue — which impacts Nexus 3000, 7000, and 9000 series switches with vulnerable NX-OS versions with DHCPv6 activated and are in standalone NX-OS mode — to facilitate continuous crashes of the dhcp_snoop process and a denial-of-service condition.
Higher rewards of up to $250,000 will be given by Google for the discovery of memory corruption flaws in the Chrome browser shown to achieve remote code execution using a non-sandboxed process as part of a more robust vulnerability reward program.