Executive Summary

Summary
Title Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201612-45 First vendor Publication 2016-12-24
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-12-24
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Tor, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifier and change log referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Tor users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/tor-0.2.8.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-8860
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8860
[ 2 ] Tor 0.2.8.9 Change Log https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torproject/tor/tor-0.2.8.9/ChangeLog

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-45

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-45.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 352

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-27 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-45.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-e56ed6f472.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-3b6393acdd.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-11-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-59316cf667.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3694.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-07-01 09:25:35
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-28 13:21:26
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-24 09:23:29
  • First insertion