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openSUSE 11.3, 11.4: 2011:0688-1 Important Opera Memory Fix

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2011
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This Fedora security notice outlines critical patches for the chrome browser, addressing a buffer overflow vulnerability.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

opera 11.11 fixes a security vulnerability. Citing

https://www.opera.com:443/help

Framesets allow web pages to hold other pages inside them.

Certain frameset constructs are not handled correctly when

the page is unloaded, causing a memory corruption. To

inject code, additional techniques will have to be employed.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update memory corruption important software fix openSUSE opera

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 11.4:

zypper in -t patch opera-4588

- openSUSE 11.3:

zypper in -t patch opera-4588

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 11.11]:

opera-11.11-1.2.1

opera-gtk-11.11-1.2.1

opera-kde4-11.11-1.2.1

- openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 11.11]:

opera-11.11-1.2.1

opera-gtk-11.11-1.2.1

opera-kde4-11.11-1.2.1

References

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Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0688-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 openSUSE 11.3 led. It includes one version update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update memory corruption important software fix openSUSE opera

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