forwarded 648253 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4453 tags 648253 confirmed thanks
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 06:55:01PM -0500, Michael Gold wrote: > I run Tor on a low SocksPort to prevent non-root accounts from > impersonating the server. The latest version of Torbutton silently > resets the port to 9050 on every startup. This normally prevents it > from working, but also introduces a security hole because any > unprivileged user could bind to that port and observe web traffic. > > A workaround is to set the TOR_SOCKS_PORT environment variable to the > proper number. This issue has been introduced in 1.4.4 (commit 95edaab9644). It looks simple enough, expect a fix soon. Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. [email protected] : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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