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Gentoo: GLSA-202204-01 Moderate Advisory on Opera Memory Corruption Issue

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Calendar Grey June 7, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
Opera browser on Gentoo Linux has a standard severity buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.
Opera contains an integer signedness error resulting in a buffer overflow which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Opera: Buffer overflow Date: June 07, 2006 Bugs: #129800 ID: 200606-01

Synopsis ======= Opera contains an integer signedness error resulting in a buffer overflow which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= Opera is a multi-platform web browser.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/opera < 8.54 >= 8.54
========== SEC Consult has discovered a buffer overflow in the code processing style sheet attributes. It is caused by an integer signedness error in a length check followed by a call to a string f...

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