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Gentoo: GLSA-202309-15 Moderate: Opera Cross Site Scripting Risks

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Numerous security flaws in Opera facilitate remote code execution as well as scripting exploits. All users are strongly encouraged to update.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Opera, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and cross domain scripting.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-22
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: December 30, 2007
      Bugs: #202770
        ID: 200712-22


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Opera, allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code and cross domain scripting.

Background
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Opera is a fast Web browser that is available free of charge.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  www-client/opera       < 9.25                             >= 9.25

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David Bloom reported two vulnerabilities where plug-ins (CVE-2007-6520)
and Rich text editing (CVE-2007-6522) could...
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