Vulnerability In Opera

[dsavard]

Secunia has reported a vulnerability which affect all web browsers, including Opera. There is also a story on /.

I checked and this vulnerability exists on the Opera version shipped with the Z6K (7.25). It seems latest version of Opera is not vulnerable (7.54).

Anybidy knows how Opera can be upgraded on the Zaurus and if there is a cost?

[Jcroto1]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

[maslovsky]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

No, it's not.

[Jcroto1]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

No, it's not.

Yes, it's in the /home/zaurus/.opera directory (if you were to extract it) and it's called "opera_arm.ipk"
[span style=\'font-size:8pt;line-height:100%\']look in the postinst[/span]

[Greg2]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

No, it's not.

Yes, it's in the /home/zaurus/.opera directory (if you were to extract it) and it's called "opera_arm.ipk"
[span style=\'font-size:8pt;line-height:100%\']look in the postinst[/span]

I'm in the process of repackaging this for my 5500 and 5600 with oz3.5.2 and this is the control file from the opera.ipk in the multimodal_arm.ipk:

Package: opera
Version: 7.55.6079
Architecture: arm
Maintainer: Stein Kulseth <steink@opera.com>
Priority: optional
Section: web
Description: The Opera Web Browser
 Welcome to the Opera Web browser. It is smaller, faster,
 customizable, powerful, yet user-friendly. Opera eliminates
 sluggish performance, HTML standard violations, desktop
 domination, and instability. This robust Web browser lets you
 navigate the Web at incredible speed and offers you the best
 Internet experience.

With a little effort this should work on a 6000?

Greg

[Jcroto1]

It should work with no effort.  When you download it it says it's for the 5600 and 6000.  So hopefully eveything will work without tweaking.

[maslovsky]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

No, it's not.

Yes, it's in the /home/zaurus/.opera directory (if you were to extract it) and it's called "opera_arm.ipk"
[span style=\'font-size:8pt;line-height:100%\']look in the postinst[/span]

What I mean is that Opera is there in the package but that version is still affected by the vulnerability...

[grog]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

I registered, downloaded & extracted & installed the opera_arm.ipk, and ipkg shows it's installed, but there's still no application icon, even after a reboot. Anybody know what else I need to do? thks

[JohnKiniston]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

I registered, downloaded & extracted & installed the opera_arm.ipk, and ipkg shows it's installed, but there's still no application icon, even after a reboot. Anybody know what else I need to do? thks

Which rom are you using?

Did you use ipkg-link to link it to root if you installed it on SD or CF?

[grog]

Opera 7.55 is burried in the WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environment package.  It's free but you have to register first.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/downl...p?go=y&rs=wsmee

Hope it has the patch.

I registered, downloaded & extracted & installed the opera_arm.ipk, and ipkg shows it's installed, but there's still no application icon, even after a reboot. Anybody know what else I need to do? thks

Which rom are you using?

Did you use ipkg-link to link it to root if you installed it on SD or CF?

I installed to my internal memory not to a card, so I'm assuming that ipkg-link isn't required? As for what ROM, it's OPIE-OZ 3.5.2 - I've seen discussions of other 'types', but how can I tell which one I'm using? And where to I get the different types? There was only the one set
here.

[Jcroto1]

What I mean is that Opera is there in the package but that version is still affected by the vulnerability...

Ahh.  Ok.  It makes sense.

[Jcroto1]

grog,

This Opera installs all the packages to /home/QtPalmtop/bin but OZ looks in the /opt/QtPalmtop/bin.  You have to symlink it all by hand,

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ln -s /home/QtPalmtop/bin/opera /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/opera
ln -s ...
PS  I found this version to be very unstable which I just wanted to tell you before you spent the time fixing it

Have fun!!

[grog]

PS  I found this version to be very unstable which I just wanted to tell you before you spent the time fixing it

Thanks for the tip. So what is the best *STABLE* version of opera then? 6 or 7.3 seem to be the other two available AFAIK. thks

[JohnKiniston]

PS  I found this version to be very unstable which I just wanted to tell you before you spent the time fixing it

Thanks for the tip. So what is the best *STABLE* version of opera then? 6 or 7.3 seem to be the other two available AFAIK. thks

6 seems to be the best version under OpenZaurus 3.5.2 from my experience.

7.x seemed slower and crashed a lot more often.

I still have problems with 6 loading blank pages at times.

[grog]

6 seems to be the best version under OpenZaurus 3.5.2 from my experience.

7.x seemed slower and crashed a lot more often.

I still have problems with 6 loading blank pages at times.

I've noticed that with 7.3 too. I'm going to try going back to 6 for a while & see if that's better for me. I don't know what's supposed to make 7.X worth while, but for my simple needs I doubt I'll be missing anything :?).

thanks again