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Gentoo: GLSA-200710-31 Normal: Opera Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2007
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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 202310-15 outlines various vulnerabilities within Firefox that could lead to unauthorized code execution.
Opera contains multiple vulnerabilities, which may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-31 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: October 30, 2007 Bugs: #196164 ID: 200710-31

Synopsis ======= Opera contains multiple vulnerabilities, which may allow the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Opera is a multi-platform web browser.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/opera < 9.24 >= 9.24
========== Michael A. Puls II discovered an unspecified flaw when launching external email or newsgroup clients (CVE-2007-5541). David Bloom discovered that when displaying frames from different websites, the same-origin policy is...

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