Bug 50857 – net-www/opera : file creation/truncation vulnerability

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Boris 2004-05-12 09:03:08 UTC]

The final release of Opera 7.50 is out since today. I patched the old opera-7.50_beta1.ebuild to install the new version.

Currently the main ftp-server is hard to reach, but mirrors are available on the website.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Boris 2004-05-12 09:04:00 UTC]

Created attachment 31273 [details, diff]
opera-7.50.ebuild.patch

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-05-13 06:15:58 UTC]

*** Bug 50920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2004-05-13 06:18:29 UTC]

Opera Telnet URI Handler File Creation/Truncation Vulnerability
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=104&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true

[Comment 4 Boris 2004-05-13 10:28:13 UTC]

An addition to the vulnerability:

The bug is fixed since opera-7.50_beta1.
See the change Changelog for this http://www.opera.com/windows/changelogs/750b1/

[Comment 5 Johnny Franz 2004-05-14 08:34:32 UTC]

Please please bump.

[Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-05-14 13:49:26 UTC]

already bumped it, forgot to make a change to the bug ;)

[Comment 7 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-05-15 00:31:01 UTC]

Reopened as a security bug to treat the Opera Telnet URI Handler File Creation/Truncation Vulnerability in v <= 7.50 GLSA.

amd64 : please add ~amd64
sparc : please mark stable

[Comment 8 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2004-05-15 08:46:56 UTC]

Opera-7.50 complains on both x86 and sparc that it cannot find a spellcheck.so to load when it starts (this library is provided by opera).  It doesn't appear to effect the browser itself much as you can still run it, but I haven't tested the mail components.  Do we want to try and fix this now or after the GLSA?

[Comment 9 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2004-05-22 16:32:35 UTC]

So do we care that opera cannot load the spellcheck library or not?

[Comment 10 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-05-23 03:41:03 UTC]

Heinrich: could you look into the spellcheck.so problem ?

If it's an easy fix, it would probably be better to have it in. If it's not, we'll probably mark stable this version so taht the GLSA can get out...

[Comment 11 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-05-24 05:30:11 UTC]

since it is an configuration issue and another bug is open for it, we can close this one if the other arches mark 7.50 stable

[Comment 12 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-05-24 12:43:35 UTC]

sparc : please retest with 7.50-r1 and mark stable, the spellcheck issue should be solved (see bug #51183).

Removing ppc and amd64 from Cc: since no stable flags are needed from them.

[Comment 13 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2004-05-24 19:17:26 UTC]

Marked stable on sparc.

[Comment 14 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-05-25 01:06:13 UTC]

Thanks Jason !
This one is ready for a GLSA.

[Comment 15 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2004-05-25 08:58:36 UTC]

glsa 200405-19