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GLSA-202401-19 : Opera: Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 188046

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-19 (Opera: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

 - Heap buffer overflow in Freetype in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.111 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2020-15999)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Opera users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=www-client/opera-73.0.3856.284 All Opera users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=www-client/opera-beta-73.0.3856.284

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-19

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750929

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 188046

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202401-19.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 1/15/2024

Updated: 2/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 9.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:opera, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:opera-beta

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15999