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opera: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):opera CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4195 CVE-2008-4196 CVE-2008-4197 CVE-2008-4198 CVE-2008-4199 CVE-2008-4200 CVE-2008-4292 CVE-2008-4694 CVE-2008-4695 CVE-2008-4696 CVE-2008-4697 CVE-2008-4698 CVE-2008-4794 CVE-2008-4795
Created:November 4, 2008 Updated:November 5, 2008
Description: The Opera browser has multiple vulnerabilities. From the Gentoo alert:

Opera does not restrict the ability of a framed web page to change the address associated with a different frame (CVE-2008-4195).

Chris Weber (Casaba Security) discovered a Cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2008-4196).

Michael A. Puls II discovered that Opera can produce argument strings that contain uninitialized memory, when processing custom shortcut and menu commands (CVE-2008-4197).

Lars Kleinschmidt discovered that Opera, when rendering an HTTP page that has loaded an HTTPS page into a frame, displays a padlock icon and offers a security information dialog reporting a secure connection (CVE-2008-4198).

Opera does not prevent use of links from web pages to feed source files on the local disk (CVE-2008-4199).

Opera does not ensure that the address field of a news feed represents the feed's actual URL (CVE-2008-4200).

Opera does not check the CRL override upon encountering a certificate that lacks a CRL (CVE-2008-4292).

Chris (Matasano Security) reported that Opera may crash if it is redirected by a malicious page to a specially crafted address (CVE-2008-4694).

Nate McFeters reported that Opera runs Java applets in the context of the local machine, if that applet has been cached and a page can predict the cache path for that applet and load it from the cache (CVE-2008-4695).

Roberto Suggi Liverani (Security-Assessment.com) reported that Opera's History Search results does not escape certain constructs correctly, allowing for the injection of scripts into the page (CVE-2008-4696).

David Bloom reported that Opera's Fast Forward feature incorrectly executes scripts from a page held in a frame in the outermost page instead of the page the JavaScript URL was located (CVE-2008-4697).

David Bloom reported that Opera does not block some scripts when previewing a news feed (CVE-2008-4698).

Opera does not correctly sanitize content when certain parameters are passed to Opera's History Search, allowing scripts to be injected into the History Search results page (CVE-2008-4794).

Opera's links panel incorrectly causes scripts from a page held in a frame to be executed in the outermost page instead of the page where the URL was located (CVE-2008-4795).

Alerts:
Gentoo 200811-01 2008-11-03

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