Bug 485439

Summary:	tor: multiple security fixes
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Bug Depends On:	485441, 485442, 485443
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Description Vincent Danen 2009-02-13 16:01:13 UTC

A number of security issues were found in tor.  The following is taken from
their announcements mailing list:

Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
  o Security fixes:
    - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
      circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
    - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
      a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
    - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
      input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
    - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
      Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.

References:

http://archives.seul.org/or/announce/Feb-2009/msg00000.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258833

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2009-02-13 16:08:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 485021 ***