Gentoo: GLSA-200904-11 High Severity: Tor Heap Corruption DoS
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April 9, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities in Tor might allow for heap corruption, Denial of Service, escalation of privileges and information disclosure.
Summary
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
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Tor might allow for heap corruption, Denial
of Service, escalation of privileges and information disclosure.
Background
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Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a
connection-oriented anonymizing communication service.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/tor < 0.2.0.34 >= 0.2.0.34
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* Theo de Raadt reported that the application does not properly drop
privileges...
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