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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-05 Normal: Opera Remote Access Issue

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2004
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Browser clients are urged to update to resolve various security flaws that could permit local file access and URL impersonation.
Several new vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Opera, including one allowing an attacker to read the local filesystem remotely.

Summary

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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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     Package        /   Vulnerable   /                      Unaffected
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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...
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