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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-31 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Date: October 30, 2007 |
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Bugs: #196164 |
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ID: 200710-31 |
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Synopsis |
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Opera contains multiple vulnerabilities, which may allow the execution |
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of arbitrary code. |
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Background |
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Opera is a multi-platform web browser. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 www-client/opera < 9.24 >= 9.24 |
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Description |
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Michael A. Puls II discovered an unspecified flaw when launching |
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external email or newsgroup clients (CVE-2007-5541). David Bloom |
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discovered that when displaying frames from different websites, the |
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same-origin policy is not correctly enforced (CVE-2007-5540). |
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Impact |
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An attacker could potentially exploit the first vulnerability to |
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execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Opera by |
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enticing a user to visit a specially crafted URL. Note that this |
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vulnerability requires an external e-mail or newsgroup client |
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configured in Opera to be exploitable. The second vulnerability allows |
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an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser |
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session in context of other sites or the theft of browser credentials. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time for all these |
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vulnerabilities. |
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Resolution |
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All Opera users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/opera-9.24" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-5540 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5540 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2007-5541 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5541 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-31.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |