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Posted on 23 January 2012
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201201-12
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 23, 2012
Bugs: #388769, #394969
ID: 201201-12

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Tor, the most severe of
which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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 < 0.2.2.35 >= 0.2.2.35

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor:

* When configured as client or bridge, Tor uses the same TLS
certificate chain for all outgoing connections (CVE-2011-2768).
* When configured as a bridge, Tor relays can distinguish incoming
bridge connections from client connections (CVE-2011-2769).
* An error in or/buffers.c could result in a heap-based buffer overflow
(CVE-2011-2778).

Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a
Denial of Service. Furthermore, a remote relay the user is directly
connected to may be able to disclose anonymous information about that
user or enumerate bridges in the user's connection.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Tor users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/tor-0.2.2.35"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2011-2768
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2768
[ 2 ] CVE-2011-2769
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2769
[ 3 ] CVE-2011-2778
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2778

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-12.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2012 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5


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