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openSUSE: 2013:0129-1 Important: Opera CORS and Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2013
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Essential upgrades for openSUSE 12.10 advised to bolster security. Safeguard your system while optimizing functionality.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

Fixed security issues:

-an issue that could cause Opera not to correctly check for

certificate revocation;

-an issue where CORS requests could incorrectly retrieve

contents of cross origin pages;

-an issue where data URIs could be used to facilitate

Cross-Site Scripting;

-a high severity issue, as reported by Gareth Heyes;

details will be disclosed at a later date

-an issue where specially crafted SVG images could allow

execution of arbitrary code;

-a moderate severity issue, as reported by the Google

Security Group; details will be disclosed at a later date

Full changelog available at:

https://help.opera.com/en/latest/

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/standard/i586/patchinfo.7:

zypper in -t patch 2012-3

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

Package List

- openSUSE 11.4/standard/i586/patchinfo.7 (i586 x86_64):

opera-12.10-36.1

opera-gtk-12.10-36.1

opera-kde4-12.10-36.1

References

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0129-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4/standard/i586/patchinfo.7 .

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