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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201612-45">
<title>Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Tor, the worst of which
could allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">tor</product>
<announced>2016-12-24</announced>
<revised count="1">2016-12-24</revised>
<bug>591008</bug>
<bug>597394</bug>
<bug>597524</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-misc/tor" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.2.8.9</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.2.8.9</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a
connection-oriented anonymizing communication service.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the
CVE identifier and change log referenced below for details.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Tor users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/tor-0.2.8.9"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-8860">CVE-2016-8860</uri>
<uri link="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torproject/tor/tor-0.2.8.9/ChangeLog">
Tor 0.2.8.9 Change Log
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-28T01:21:24Z">whissi</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-24T06:50:16Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>