Advisories » MGASA-2021-0426

Updated tor packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
Modification date: 23 Sep 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-38385

Description

Henry de Valence reported a flaw in the signature verification code in Tor,
a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. A remote
attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an assertion failure,
resulting in denial of service.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29377
• https://blog.torproject.org/node/2062
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/PMWWIBVBPI5X7QIC5VO3NJURIXL33ROT/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38385

SRPMS

8/core

• tor-0.3.5.16-1.mga8