A vulnerability has been identified in Opera, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an error when parsing specially crafted JavaScript data resulting in a virtual function call on an invalid pointer, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

Opera versions prior to 9.23

Solution

Upgrade to Opera version 9.23 :
http://www.opera.com/download/