DSA-3741-1 tor -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3741-1 tor -- security update

Date Reported:

20 Dec 2016

Affected Packages:

tor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 848847.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1254.

More information:

It was discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, may read one byte past a buffer when parsing hidden service descriptors. This issue may enable a hostile hidden service to crash Tor clients depending on hardening options and malloc implementation.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5.12-4.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.9.8-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tor packages.