Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200502-17 (Opera)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200502-17. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2005-0457

CVE-2005-0457 affects Opera on Gentoo Linux (versions 7.54 and earlier) due to an insecure plugin path that allows local privilege escalation by placing malicious libraries in the PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Connected sources (Gentoo GLSA 200502-17) reiterate this as a vulnerability in Opera’s handling of pl...

CVE-2005-0457

Opera 7.54 and earlier on Gentoo Linux uses an insecure path for plugins, which could allow local users to gain privileges by inserting malicious libraries into the PORTAGETMPDIR portage temporary directory...