Flaw in Tor Browser Leads to Leaking of Your Real IP Address

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Tor Browser Users Urged to Patch Critical ‘TorMoil’ Vulnerability

The Tor Project released a patch for a vulnerability that leaks the real IP addresses of macOS and Linux users of its Tor Browser. The patch was issued late Friday and fixes a vulnerability found in Tor Browser version 7.0.8. The patch is in an upgrade to Tor Browser 7.0.9. Windows users running...

Warning: Critical Tor Browser Vulnerability Leaks Users’ Real IP Address—Update Now

If you follow us on Twitter, you must be aware that since yesterday we have been warning Mac and Linux users of the Tor anonymity browser about a critical vulnerability that could leak their real IP addresses to potential attackers when they visit certain types of web pages. Discovered by Italian...

Firefox Bolsters Privacy, Pulls Plug on Browser Canvas Fingerprinting

The Mozilla Foundation is boosting privacy in an upcoming version of its Firefox browser by removing the snooping capability called canvas fingerprinting, a method of tracking users across multiple websites. The feature is expected to be removed in January 2018 with the introduction of Firefox 58...

Tor: Detecting Tor Browser UI Language

Suppose that a user downloads a non-English version of Tor Browser from https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en, there is a way to detect which UI language the user is using. I don't think you want websites to detect this info, because at the first time I launched non-English Tor...

Tor: Cross-domain linkability when system time changed in Tor Browser

This report is inspired by 257942. That report uses languagechange event as an indicator for different tabs to link multiple visits to a single user. This report uses another trick to achieve the same thing. Malicious websites keeps reading Date.now inside a setInterval loop with a short interval...

Tor: Crashes/Buffer at 0x2C0086,name=PBrowser::Msg_Destroy

Hi Team, Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Tor 2. Navigate to string.html Where string.html : function tor var uristring = unescape"%u4141%u4141"; fori=0; i 3. 'Gah! This tab has crashed. However, running it to debug mode generates the below exception : !!! ParentMessageChannel Error:...

Tor: Preferred language option fingerprinting issue in Tor Browser

I'm not so sure if this is an in-scope issue or by-design. But based on my understanding of 1, I feel that Tor doesn't want to make user configuration details of Tor Browser detectable by websites. But in about:preferencescontent, there's a "Languages" section that allows users to "choose your...

Dark-Web Drug Dealer Arrested After He Travelled US for World Beard Championships

United States authorities arrested suspected dark web drug kingpin late last month while he was travelling from his base in France to the United States of America for this year’s annual World Beard and Mustache Championships. Gal Vallerius, a 38-year-old French national, was travelling to Austin,...

Zerodium Offering $1M for Tor Browser Zero Days

The exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium is doubling down again. Weeks after the company said it would pay $500,000 for zero days in private messaging apps such as Signal and WhatsApp, Zerodium said Wednesday it will pay twice that for a zero day in Tor Browser. The company said it will pay up to ...

Zerodium Offers $1 Million for Tor Browser 0-Days That It will Resell to Governments

It seems like Tor Browser zero-day exploits are in high demand right now—so much so that someone is ready to pay ONE MILLION dollars. Zerodium—a company that specialises in acquiring and reselling zero-day exploits—just announced that it will pay up to USD 1,000,000 for working zero-day exploits...

Tor Linux Sandbox Breakout Via X11

Tor: Linux sandbox breakout via X11 From inside the Linux sandbox described in https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-70-released, it is still possible to talk to the X server without any restrictions. This means that a compromised browser can e.g. use the XTEST X protocol extension at...

Tor - Linux Sandbox Breakout via X11 Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1293&desc=2 EDIT: I mixed up two different sandboxes; see the comment below for a correction. From inside the Linux sandbox described in , it is still possible to talk to the ...

Tor (Linux) - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout

Tor Linux - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1293&desc=2 EDIT: I mixed up two different sandboxes; see the comment below for a correction. From inside the Linux sandbox described in , it is still possible to talk to the X server withou...

Tor (Linux) - X11 Linux Sandbox Breakout

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1293&desc=2 EDIT: I mixed up two different sandboxes; see the comment below for a correction. From inside the Linux sandbox described in , it is still possible to talk to the X server without any restrictions. This means that a...

Tor: Zip bomb

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[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: torbrowser-launcher-0.2.8-1.fc25

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make Tor Browser easier to install and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your distribution's package manager and it handles everything else: Downloads and installs the most recent version of Tor Browser in your lan guage and for your...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: torbrowser-launcher-0.2.8-1.fc26

Tor Browser Launcher is intended to make Tor Browser easier to install and use for GNU/Linux users. You install torbrowser-launcher from your distribution's package manager and it handles everything else: Downloads and installs the most recent version of Tor Browser in your lan guage and for your...

Tor: Access to local file system using javascript

Issue : Access to local file system using javascriptslightly xss on server side The browser can access the local files using iframes with a local html file. this is very normal and often used for local web development but javascript shouldn't be able to get the content of that iframe because this...

Tor: Simple CSS line-height identifies platform

There are lots of ways to identify the Tor Browser. User-Agent string, limited time resolution, no media, etc. Assume you know it is the Tor Browser. Can you tell what platform? NOTE: This assumption is well within the scope of the Tor Browser. The Tor Browser does not hide the fact that it is th...