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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200804-14">
+ <title>Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Opera, allowing for
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">opera</product>
+ <announced>April 14, 2008</announced>
+ <revised>April 14, 2008: 01</revised>
+ <bug>216022</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-client/opera" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">9.27</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">9.27</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Michal Zalewski reported two vulnerabilities, memory corruption when
+ adding news feed sources from a website (CVE-2008-1761) as well as when
+ processing HTML CANVAS elements to use scaled images (CVE-2008-1762).
+ Additionally, an unspecified weakness related to keyboard handling of
+ password inputs has been reported (CVE-2008-1764).
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user to visit a specially crafted web
+ site or news feed and possibly execute arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the user running Opera.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Opera users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-client/opera-9.27&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1761">CVE-2008-1761</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1762">CVE-2008-1762</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1764">CVE-2008-1764</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:02:37 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:02:49 +0000">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>