Opera 9.64 Released
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 09:10
¡Hola! We released 9.64 today. This release is a recommended security upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases.
Changes and improvements since Opera 9.63
Security
- Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Tavis Ormandy
of the Google Security Team; see our advisory - Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by Adam Barth; details will be
disclosed at a later date. - Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.
- Added Untrusted Rootstore Capability:
- Opera downloads only the detailed information about untrusted (blacklisted) certificates when they are encountered
- If download fails for certificate information in the list, Opera considers any certificate matching the ID as
untrusted
- Added version conditional fetching of certificate dependencies from an online repository
- Fixed a problem downloading the CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
- Fixed a problem that could cause SSL to deadlock in one state, hanging the connection
- Fixed a problem that could cause the incorrect calculation of Certificate IDs
- Implemented Extended Validation (EV) for cross-signed EV Root Certificates not shipped by default
- Implemented preshipping of the Entrust 2048 CA (Certificate Authority)
- Implemented Root Certificate fetching from an online repository when an intermediate matches a certificate in the repository
- Improved support for weak encryption when importing .p12 private certificates
- Prevented security information documents from being written to disk
Miscellaneous
- Fixed a problem which created separate feed notifications; Opera now groups them together
- Fixed a problem with the backspace key event in the Flash plug-in
- Fixed a problem with inline find when no text was entered, and the Enter key was pressed
- Fixed an instability error with the 64 bit Linux version
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