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Gentoo: 200803-09 Normal: Opera File Disclosure and Cross-Site Scripting

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2008
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Gentoo GLSA 200803-09 warns of critical vulnerabilities in Opera browser, risking file disclosure and privilege escalation. Users must apply patches to protect systems
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Opera, allowing for file disclosure, privilege escalation and Cross-Site scripting.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-09
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: March 04, 2008
      Bugs: #210260
        ID: 200803-09


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Opera, allowing for
file disclosure, privilege escalation and Cross-Site 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       < 9.26                             >= 9.26

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Mozilla discovered that Opera does not handle input to file form fields
properly, allowing scripts to manipul...
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