DSA-4183-1 tor -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4183-1 tor -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Apr 2018

Affected Packages:

tor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-0490.

More information:

It has been discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, contains a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash directory authorities with a null-pointer exception (TROVE-2018-001).

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.9.15-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tor packages.

For the detailed security status of tor please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/tor