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Gentoo: GLSA-200701-08 Normal: Opera Two Code Execution Threats

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
This bulletin outlines essential enhancements for Firefox on Arch Linux aimed at reducing vulnerabilities related to unauthorized code execution while browsing.
Two vulnerabilities may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Opera: Two remote code execution vulnerabilities Date: January 12, 2007 Bugs: #160369 ID: 200701-08

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities may allow the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Opera is a multi-platform web browser.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/opera < 9.10 >= 9.10
========== Christoph Deal discovered that JPEG files with a specially crafted DHT marker can be exploited to cause a heap overflow. Furthermore, an anonymous person discovered that Opera does not correctly handle objects passed to the "crea...

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