Opera Web Browser Command Execution and XSS Vulnerabilities (Linux)

Summary
The host is installed with Opera Web Browser and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Impact
Successful remote attack could inject arbitrary HTML and script code, launch cross site scripting attacks on user's browser session when malicious data is being viewed. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Opera 9.62 http://www.opera.com/download/
Insight
Flaws are due to, - certain parameters passed to the History Search functionality are not properly sanitised before being used. - an error exists in the handling of javascript URLs in the Links panel.
Affected
Opera version prior to 9.62 on Linux.
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