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Fedora 23: 2016-1234 Critical: OpenSSH Security Update Required Now

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Unveil the newly released Fedora 22 patch for Tor, tackling vital vulnerabilities to boost privacy and efficiency.
Update to upstream release 0.2.5.12

Summary

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:

Update to upstream release 0.2.5.12. Update to upstream release 0.2.5.11.

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1209804 - CVE-2015-2928 CVE-2015-2929 tor: multiple issues fixed in the new upstream releases https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209804 [ 2 ] Bug #1204773 - CVE-2015-2688 CVE-2015-2689 tor: security fixes in 0.2.4.26 and 0.2.5.11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204773

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: tor
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.2.5.12
Release: 1.fc22
Summary: Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router)

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