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Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30636
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Release Date:
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2008-06-12
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Last Update:
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2008-06-19
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Popularity:
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7,744 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Opera 5.x
Opera 6.x
Opera 7.x
Opera 8.x
Opera 9.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-2714
CVE-2008-2715
CVE-2008-2716
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information or to conduct spoofing attacks.
1) An error in the handling of certain characters in a page address can be exploited to e.g. make a site's address look like another site's address.
2) An error in the checking of the source of images when used by HTML CANVAS elements can be exploited to retrieve the image data.
3) Pages in frames are able to change the location of pages in other frames on the parent page.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 9.5.
Solution:
Update to version 9.5.
http://www.opera.com/download/
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1) Tony Thommes
2) Philip Taylor
Changelog:
2008-06-19: Added CVE references.
Original Advisory:
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/950/#security
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/878/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/883/
http://www.opera.com/support/search/view/885/
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