CVE-2004-1491: Gentoo Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Opera 7.54 and earlier uses kfmclient exec to handle unknown MIME types, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a shortcut or launcher that contains an Exec entry.

Affected products

• Gentoo Linux: any version
• Kde Kde: version 3.2.3 only
• Opera Opera Browser: up to and including 7.54
• Suse Suse Linux: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.