Bug 1386499 (CVE-2016-8860)

Summary:	CVE-2016-8860 tor: Version 0.2.8.9 contains security fixes
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	lewk, pwouters, s
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1386500, 1386501
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-19 06:25:08 UTC

A new version of tor package was made available containing security fixes.

External References:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0289-released-important-fixes

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/178

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-19 06:26:00 UTC

Created tor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1386500]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1386501]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-20 06:58:52 UTC

Upstream bug:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20384

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/torproject/tor/commit/3cea86eb2fbb65949673eb4ba8ebb695c87a57ce

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/193