Opera releases security update

Opera Software has released a security update, 9.02, of its open-source browser. The new version is designed to address vulnerabilities in its earlier Opera 9 releases that could allow an abnormally large link to create a buffer overflow and crash a user's system.

An attacker, as a result, could gain control of a user's computer and execute arbitrary code, according to a security advisory by VeriSign's iDefense Labs.

[d3bruts1d]

Welcome To Last Month

Umm.. some awesome research going on here. First things first... The Opera Web Browser <b>is not</b> and Open Source application. Yes, it is free, but free does not mean open source.

Opera 9.02 was released on Sept. 21st 2006. Almost an entire month ago. Here are a few links for ya on that one...
- <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/476681" target="_newWindow">http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/476681</a>
- <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://forums.techrelated.com/index.php?showtopic=1201" target="_newWindow">http://forums.techrelated.com/index.php?showtopic=1201</a>
- <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://operawatch.com/news/2006/09/opera-releases-update-to-browser-with-version-902.html" target="_newWindow">http://operawatch.com/news/2006/09/opera-releases-update-to-browser-with-version-902.html</a>

[Hardrada]

stupid column

who is this guy: Dawn Kawamoto ?

I don't understand why he says that Opera is open source *and* reports 9.02 after a month of its release date.