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Fedora 24: 2016-76b646637e Moderate: Tor Remote DoS Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling the remote DoS vulnerability in Tor with Fedora 24's security patch for CVE-2016-1254 is crucial. Implement the update immediately!
Security fix for CVE-2016-1254

Summary

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to

improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this

network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a

direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and individuals to share

information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Along the

same line, Tor is an effective censorship circumvention tool, allowing its

users to reach otherwise blocked destinations or content. Tor can also be used

as a building block for software developers to create new communication tools

with built-in privacy features.

This package contains the Tor software that can act as either a server on the

Tor network, or as a client to connect to the Tor network.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-1254

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1406314 - CVE-2016-1254 tor: Remote DoS via parsing problem https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406314

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade tor' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: tor
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.2.8.12
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: Anonymizing overlay network for TCP

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