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[SA14282] Gentoo update for opera

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 03:37:52 CST

TITLE:
Gentoo update for opera

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14282

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14282/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Spoofing, Exposure of system information, Privilege escalation,
System access

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for opera. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
disclose some system information, spoof the content of websites,
trick a user into executing malicious files and compromise a user's
system.

For more information:
SA13253
SA12981
SA13447
SA13818
SA13257

A Gentoo specific vulnerability has also been reported, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a configuration error, where Opera
loads libraries from a shared directory writable for users in the
"portage" group. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via
a malicious library with the privileges of the user running opera.

SOLUTION:
Update to "net-www/opera-7.54-r3" or later.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-17.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA13253:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13253/

SA12981:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12981/

SA13447:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13447/

SA13818:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13818/

SA13257:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13257/

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