Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#52655 closed update
tor-devel updated to 0.2.9.4-alpha (includes security fix) — at Version 4
| Reported by: | macports.org@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | haspatch maintainer | Cc: | devans@… |
| Port: | tor-devel |
Description (last modified by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez))
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0294-alpha-released-important-fixes
Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions of Tor.
- Major features (security fixes):
- Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor, though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)
| Cc: | devans@… added |
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comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Summary: | tpr-devel updated to 0.2.9.4-alpha (includes security fix) → tor-devel updated to 0.2.9.4-alpha (includes security fix) |
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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Changed 8 years ago by macports.org@…
| Attachment: | Portfile-tor-devel.diff added |
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