-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-3773 2013-03-12 22:37:06 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : tor Product : Fedora 17 Version : 0.2.3.25 Release : 1702.fc17 URL : https://www.torproject.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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Significant package cleanup, including: - remove dependency on fedora-usermgmt - merge tor-core, tor-systemd and torify into previously empty tor package - remove unnecessary /var/run/tor - disallow group read for /var/log/tor - use --defaults-torrc as recommended by upstream - increase LimitNOFILE in tor.service from 4096 to 32768 - torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks (#908569) Fix outstanding security issues, plus package cleanup torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Mar 11 2013 Jamie Nguyen <[email protected]> - 0.2.3.25-1702 - add missing %{?dist} - remove dependency on fedora-usermgmt - merge tor-core, tor-systemd and torify into previously empty tor package - remove unnecessary custom LDFLAGS - remove unnecessary /var/run/tor - disallow group read for /var/log/tor - use --defaults-torrc as recommended by upstream - fix URL to https - increase LimitNOFILE in tor.service from 4096 to 32768, as advised by upstream: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8368#comment:4 * Thu Feb 7 2013 Jamie Nguyen <[email protected]> - 0.2.3.25-1701 - torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks (#908569) * Wed Feb 6 2013 Jamie Nguyen <[email protected]> - 0.2.3.25-1700 - add additional %configure options for user and group - add --defaults-torrc to systemd service to make sure sane defaults are set unless explicitly overridden - remove unnecessary BuildRoot tag - remove unnecessary rm -rf RPM_BUILD_ROOT - remove unnecessary %clean section - remove unnecessary defattr's - fix Requires for torify subpackage - update scriptlets to latest systemd guidelines - aesthetic changes to the SPEC for clarity and readability * Sat Sep 22 2012 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.2.39-1700 - updated to 0.2.2.29 - CVE-2012-4419: assertion failure when comparing an address with port 0 to an address policy - CVE-2012-4422: assertion failure in tor_timegm() * Sun Aug 19 2012 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.2.38-1700 - updated to 0.2.2.38 * Tue Jun 12 2012 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.2.37-1700 - updated to 0.2.2.37 * Sat May 26 2012 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.2.36-1700 - updated to 0.2.2.36 * Fri Apr 13 2012 Enrico Scholz <[email protected]> - 0.2.2.35-1703 - build with -fPIE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #880310 - CVE-2012-5573 tor: denial of service when handling SENDME cells https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880310 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
