Opera says a recently-discovered vulnerability may crash the browser, but isn't likely to enable the remote execution of malware.

"The buffer overflow bug was disclosed by Vupen Security on Thursday, and the report has since been picked up by others, including Secunia and Sans," writes The Register's Dan Goodin. "The advisories have said the vulnerability is critical because it can be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on end user machines."

"'We believe that the bug primarily causes a crash, and that exploiting the vulnerability to execute code is extremely difficult, if not impossible,' [Opera] spokesman Thomas Ford told The Register," Goodin writes.

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