Gentoo: GLSA-200903-30 Normal: Opera Risks Require Immediate Upgrade
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March 17, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Opera, the worst of which allow for the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-30
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 16, 2009
Bugs: #247229, #261032
ID: 200903-30
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Opera, the worst of which allow
for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge.
Affected packages
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1 www-client/opera < 9.64 >= 9.64
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Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Opera:
* Vitaly McLain reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing
host names in file:// URLs (CVE-2008-5178).
* Al...
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