I am requesting "SRU micro version update exception" for Tor packages. Tor packages with security fixes appear to be maintained upstream at TorProject.org and Debian. Most of the time I think the Debian packages will resolve the Ubuntu security issues. However because of the timing of the release cycles of Debian and Ubuntu, backporting a TorProject.org package could occasionally be used to resolve the issue.
Justification: It appears that Tor never receives any security updates, or at least it hasn't since 2012. http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/pkg/tor.html http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=tor http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=tor&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tor&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all According to the Security Team wiki [1] the "MOTU Swat team is responsible for helping to coordinate community supported updates in Ubuntu". Six days ago I emailed all members of the MOTU Swat team (one team members email bounced) about the issue and no one replied. The primary reason the Tor network exists is provide people a way to improve their "privacy and security on the Internet." [2] Thanks, Chuck PS. The number of CVE issues for each of the supported Ubuntu releases. Precise: 14 Trusty: 5 Utopic: 4 Vivid: 4 Instructions on installing the TorProject.org packages: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en Debian squeeze-lts is understaffed to maintain all of the security issues, and it has been updated with tor 0.2.4.27-1~deb6u1. I backported the unmodified Debian packages and uploaded them to my PPA. https://launchpad.net/~cp/+archive/ubuntu/bug-fixes/ 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam 2. https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
