Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Tor process or create a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Tor users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/tor-0.2.1.30"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since April 2, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.