Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities in Tor might allow for heap corruption, Denial of Service, escalation of privileges and information disclosure. tor April 08, 2009 April 08, 2009: 01 250018 256078 258833 remote 0.2.0.34 0.2.0.34

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

A local attacker could escalate privileges by leveraging unintended supplementary group memberships of the Tor process. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a heap corruption with unknown impact and attack vectors, to cause a Denial of Service via CPU consuption or daemon crash, and to weaken anonymity provided by the service.

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-0.2.0.34"
CVE-2008-5397 CVE-2008-5398 CVE-2009-0414 CVE-2009-0936 CVE-2009-0937 CVE-2009-0938 CVE-2009-0939 craig rbu rbu