gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » opera patch http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Update To Opera 9.52 Nowhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/update-to-opera-952-now/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/20/update-to-opera-952-now/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:25:35 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6322 Several security vulnerabilities have been lately discovered in versions of Opera prior to Opera 9.52. The security vulnerabilities are classified as highly critical and include possibilities to bypass security, spoof, expose sensitive information, DoS and provide system access to an attacker.

The Opera 9.52 changelog contains information about the security vulnerabilities. Each one of the listed alone would be serious enough to be fixed immediately, all of them make the matter even more pressing. At least one vulnerability is only affecting computers running Windows but most affect all versions of Opera.

The update is deemed a security and stability update. Next to the important security fixes many changes to various aspects of Opera have been made. The changelog lists more than 30 fixes for various problems that could arise while using Opera.

The latest download is available directly on the Opera website.

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