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Debian: DSA-3993-1 Important: Fix for Tor Service Information Leak

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Calendar Grey October 6, 2017
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Upgrade Tor distributions to safeguard against unintended data exposure due to incorrect settings. Vital security update for Ubuntu users.
It was discovered that the Tor onion service could leak sensitive information to log files if the "SafeLogging" option is set to "0"

Summary

It was discovered that the Tor onion service could leak sensitive
information to log files if the "SafeLogging" option is set to "0".

The oldstable distribution (jessie) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2.9.12-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tor packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: tor
CVE ID: CVE-2017-0380

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