Changelog for Opera 7.01 for Windows

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Opera 7.01 Changelog

This version fixes some security and privacy issues reported by Grey Magic that were present in Opera 7.0.

Security fixes

1. Remote access to local content
   • In a cross-domain attack, functions in one document could be replaced with functions from another document and domain
   • This could allow page and system content to be read
2. Remote access to local content
   • In two similar cross-domain attacks, JavaScript code could be inserted into documents in the FILE domain
   • This could allow system content to be read

Privacy fixes

1. Part of browsing history could be accessed
   • Insecure property on history object
   • This could allow the next and previous URLs in a document's window to be read by documents not authorized to see them
2. Part of browsing history could be accessed
   • Content of JavaScript console could be read from another document
   • This could allow URLs that had script failures to be read

Miscellaneous

• Fixed some stability issues
• Help files updated

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