Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in Opera 11.51

http://www.h-online.com/security/ne...hole-in-current-version-of-Opera-1362504.html

 

From Mack_Guy:

An interesting link:
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/33328/?task=statistics_2011
20% of Opera's exploits go unpatched

60% of those are rated "High" and 40% are "Moderate"

 

Funny how a Chrome icon magically appeared on my Taskbar immediately to the right of an existing Opera icon shortly after reading this thread.

 

Honestly, at the very least I thought Opera patched their browser. 20% of the known vulnerabilities go unpatched... that's not very good. Even Firefox does better than that.

 

Maybe their market share makes them not rush patches... You know, just in case patches break something...

 

lol who knows what their reasoning is

All I know is this is further evidence of what I've been saying for a while.

 

Maybe I should have mentioned "critical" in the title of this thread.

 

Always spices things up haha

 

only the last one, the "SVG Content Processing Code Execution Vulnerability" is unpatched: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/33328/?task=advisories_2011

 

I'm getting my info from this:
http://secunia.com/advisories/graph/?type=sol&period=2011&prod=33328

and

http://secunia.com/advisories/graph/?type=cri&period=2011&prod=33328

 

You need to work on your marketing skills

Then we wouldn't have an essentially duplicate thread!

 

I think the Opera devs have been dropping the ball for years now...

 

Opera has a new development team that wants to only add new features and not fix existing bugs. Several years ago they had a very secure and safe browser but now they have several things that are broken or insecure.

They have added:

Opera Turbo
Opera Unite
Opera Link
Opera Widgets
Opera Add-ons

and probably some I missed...how safe are the new additions?

I like Opera in ways but with every update more things are broken.

rrrh1 (arch1)

 

Yeah, I remember in 2006-2007 I found Opera to be a very respectable candidate for a browser, but it's gone downhill in recent years.

 

Well, at least they fixed it promptly (but after all of the hoopla) and the following is Opera's version of what exactly occurred.

http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/b...ulation-vulnerability-that-was-fixed-in-11-52

 

The Opera devs are pretty ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ if they're going to try to pin the blame on the guy who tried to help them out.