Debian Security Advisory
DLA-982-1 tor -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 10 Jun 2017
- Affected Packages:
- tor
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 864424.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-0376. - More information:
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It has been discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, contains a flaw in the hidden service code. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a hidden service to crash with an assertion failure (TROVE-2017-005).
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.4.29-1.We recommend that you upgrade your tor packages.
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