-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-0642 2011-01-21 22:13:54 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : tor Product : Fedora 14 Version : 0.2.1.29 Release : 1400.fc14 URL : http://tor.eff.org Summary : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router) Description : Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each relay, which reveals the downstream relay. Warnings: Tor does no protocol cleaning. That means there is a danger that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. This is alpha code, and is even more likely than released code to have anonymity-spoiling bugs. The present network is very small -- this further reduces the strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for high-stakes anonymity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 17 2011 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.29-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.29 (SECURITY) - CVE-2011-0427: heap overflow bug, potential remote code execution * Tue Dec 21 2010 Luke Macken <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.28-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.28 (SECURITY: fixes a remotely exploitable heap overflow bug) * Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.27-1400 - updated to 0.2.1.27 - work around broken chkconfig by adding dummy Default-Start: in -lsb (#647512) * Fri Nov 26 2010 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.1.26-1401 - fixed 'limit' statement in upstart script -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #671259 - CVE-2011-0015 CVE-2011-0016 CVE-2011-0427 CVE-2011-0490 CVE-2011-0491 CVE-2011-0492 CVE-2011-0493 tor: multiple security flaws fixed in 0.2.1.29 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671259 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tor' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
