Opera Update Closes Severe Heap Overflow Hole

Author: Donald Sears
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Opera Software has released version 10.61 of the Opera web browser to fix a high severity hole. The issue was a heap overflow in the HTML5 canvas when performing some painting operations, which could in some cases be used to execute code. Read the full article. [The H Security]

Opera Software has released version 10.61 of the Opera web browser to fix a high severity hole. The issue was a heap overflow in the HTML5 canvas when performing some painting operations, which could in some cases be used to execute code. Read the full article. [The H Security]

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