Opera 9.64 for Mac Changelog

Release Notes

Opera 9.64 is a recommended security and stability upgrade, incorporating the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine. Opera highly recommends all users to upgrade to Opera 9.64 to take advantage of these improvements.

Release date: 03.03.2009

Changes and improvements since Opera 9.63

Security

• Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images could 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 an issue that allowed Web pages to send custom data that would normally be blocked to other sites, as reported by Amit Klein; see our advisory
• 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 which occured with inline find when no content was entered and the Enter key was pressed