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Gentoo: GLSA-200903-30 Normal: Opera Risks Require Immediate Upgrade

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2009
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Several vulnerabilities in Firefox demand urgent updates to avert unintended code execution and mitigate possible threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Opera, the worst of which allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

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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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Opera, the worst of which allow for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/opera < 9.64 >= 9.64
========== 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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