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Gentoo: 200506-18 Vulnerability Alert: Tor Information Disclosure Risk

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
Gentoo GLSA 201204-25 highlights a minor security risk concerning a vulnerability in OpenSSL, recommending users to update their systems immediately.
A flaw in Tor may allow the disclosure of arbitrary memory portions.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Tor: Information disclosure Date: June 21, 2005 Bugs: #96320 ID: 200506-18

Synopsis ======= A flaw in Tor may allow the disclosure of arbitrary memory portions.
Background ========= Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/tor < 0.0.9.10 >= 0.0.9.10
========== A bug in Tor allows attackers to view arbitrary memory contents from an exit server's process space.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could exploit the memory disclosur...

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