Gentoo: GLSA-200408-05 Normal: Opera Remote Access Issue
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August 5, 2004
Several new vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Opera, including one allowing an attacker to read the local filesystem remotely.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Opera: Multiple new vulnerabilities
Date: August 05, 2004
Bugs: #59503
ID: 200408-05
Synopsis
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Several new vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Opera, including
one allowing an attacker to read the local filesystem remotely.
Background
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Opera is a multi-platform web browser.
Affected packages
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1 net-www/opera <= 7.53 >= 7.54
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Opera web browser.
Opera fails to deny write access to the "location" browser object. An
attacker can overwrite method...Read the Full Advisory
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