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Upgrading Opera browser prevents two serious vulnerabilities
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“Users of the Opera browser should upgrade to avoid two serious security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to view files or to place and execute files on a user’s computer.
According to S.G. Masood, the researcher who discovered both vulnerabilities, a remote attacker can create HTML that uses the ‘opera:’ internal protocol to read the directory and any file on a user’s computer. A remote attacker could also execute arbitrary code on a user’s computer.”