CVE-2008-5428: Opera

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Opera 9.51 on Windows XP does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many "Content-type: message/rfc822;" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.

Affected products

• Opera Opera: version 9.51 only

Published 2008-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.