Bug 485439 - tor: multiple security fixes
Summary: tor: multiple security fixes
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 485021
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 485441 485442 485443
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-02-13 16:01 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-02-13 16:08:41 UTC
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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 ***
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