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Gentoo 200508-16 Low Severity: Tor Information Leak Threat

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
Minimal severity Gentoo notice (GLSA 202309-12) addressing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL's cryptographic flaws.
A flaw in Tor leads to the disclosure of information and the loss of anonymity, integrity and confidentiality.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Tor: Information disclosure Date: August 25, 2005 Bugs: #102245 ID: 200508-16

Synopsis ======= A flaw in Tor leads to the disclosure of information and the loss of anonymity, integrity and confidentiality.
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 < 0.1.0.14 >= 0.1.0.14
========== The Diffie-Hellman implementation of Tor fails to verify the cryptographic strength of keys which are used during handsha...

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