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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-11 High Severity: Tor Heap Corruption DoS

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2009
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Critical alert for Gentoo users about Tor security flaws and essential steps for updating.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Tor might allow for heap corruption, Denial of Service, escalation of privileges and information disclosure.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 08, 2009 Bugs: #250018, #256078, #258833 ID: 200904-11

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in Tor might allow for heap corruption, Denial of Service, escalation of privileges and information disclosure.
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 < 0.2.0.34 >= 0.2.0.34
========== * Theo de Raadt reported that the application does not properly drop privileges...

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