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Calendar Grey March 14, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch addresses a vital buffer overflow vulnerability in the Tor software on Fedora, improving both security and privacy capabilities.
Security fix for integer underflow

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 integer underflow

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1428872 - tor: Integer underflow when comparing malformed tor versions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1428872

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 25
Version: 0.2.9.10
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Anonymizing overlay network for TCP

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