Tor: Denial of Service Two vulnerabilities have been found in Tor, the worst of which can allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. tor 2015-07-06 2015-07-06: 1 545940 remote 0.2.6.7 0.2.6.7

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

Tor does not handle data correctly when specifically crafted data is sent, and also fails to properly verify a descriptor provided by a hidden service directory.

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition in both a Tor client or a Tor server.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Tor users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/tor-0.2.6.7" CVE-2015-2928 CVE-2015-2929 Upstream announcement keytoaster stanley