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Gentoo: GLSA-202307-45 Normal: Firefox Security Update Notice

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The Opera browser running on Gentoo faces numerous security flaws that could result in unauthorized data exposure and the execution of arbitrary code.
Opera is vulnerable to several vulnerabilities which could result in information disclosure and facilitate execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 14, 2005 Bugs: #73871, #74076, #74321, #81747 ID: 200502-17

Synopsis ======= Opera is vulnerable to several vulnerabilities which could result in information disclosure and facilitate execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Opera is a multi-platform web browser.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-www/opera < 7.54-r3 >= 7.54-r3
========== Opera contains several vulnerabilities:
* fails to properly validate Content-Type and filename.
* fails to properly validate date: URIs.
* uses kfmcl...

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