metadata/glsa/glsa-200408-05.xml

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<glsa id="200408-05">
  <title>Opera: Multiple new vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Several new vulnerabilities were found and fixed in Opera, including one
    allowing an attacker to read the local filesystem remotely.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Opera</product>
  <announced>August 05, 2004</announced>
  <revised>December 30, 2007: 03</revised>
  <bug>59503</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-client/opera" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">7.54</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">7.53</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Opera is a multi-platform web browser.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Opera web browser.
    Opera fails to deny write access to the "location" browser object. An
    attacker can overwrite methods in this object and gain script access to
    any page that uses one of these methods. Furthermore, access to file://
    URLs is possible even from pages loaded using other protocols. Finally,
    spoofing a legitimate web page is still possible, despite the fixes
    announced in GLSA 200407-15.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By enticing an user to visit specially crafted web pages, an attacker
    can read files located on the victim's file system, read emails written
    or received by M2, Opera's mail program, steal cookies, spoof URLs,
    track user browsing history, etc.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
    upgrade to the latest available version.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Opera users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=www-client/opera-7.54&quot;
    # emerge &quot;&gt;=www-client/opera-7.54&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/754/">Opera Changelog</uri>
    <uri link="http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-07/1056.html">Address bar spoofing issue disclosure</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm008-op/">GreyMagic Security Advisory GM#008-OP</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2570">CVE-2004-2570</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu,  5 Aug 2004 18:21:29 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>