UBUNTU-CVE-2023-23589

The SafeSocks option in Tor before 0.4.7.13 has a logic error in which the unsafe SOCKS4 protocol can be used but not the safe SOCKS4a protocol, aka TROVE-2022-002...

New Sophisticated Malware

Mandiant is reporting on a new botnet. The group, which security firm Mandiant is calling UNC3524, has spent the past 18 months burrowing into victims networks with unusual stealth. In cases where the group is ejected, it wastes no time reinfecting the victim environment and picking up where thin...

Telegram Desktop Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20542)

Telegram is a suite of mobile messaging tools. Telegram Desktop aka tdesktop is its desktop application. A security vulnerability exists in Telegram Desktop version 1.3.16 alpha, which is caused by the program using the SOCKS5 protocol to transfer credentials and application data in clear text wh...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: tor-0.2.5.11-1.fc20

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: tor-0.2.5.11-1.fc21

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: tor-0.2.4.23-1.fc19

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: tor-0.2.3.25-1702.fc17

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: tor-0.2.2.39-1800.fc18

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: tor-0.2.1.29-1300.fc13

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2011-0642

Check for the Version of tor OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for tor FEDORA-2011-0642 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: tor-0.2.1.29-1400.fc14

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: tor-0.2.1.28-1400.fc14

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: tor-0.2.1.28-1300.fc13

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: tor-0.2.0.33-1.fc10

Tor is a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system. Applications connect to the local Tor proxy using the SOCKS protocol. The local proxy chooses a path through a set of relays, in which each relay knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the...

Update Protection against Sun Microsystems Java System Web Proxy sockd Daemon Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the Java System Web Proxy sockd daemon. Java System Web Proxy Server collects and distributes data from the network. It provides protocol support for SOCKS - an Internet protocol that allows client-server applications to transparently use the...

SOCKS Server Detection

A SOCKS server is running on this host. Copyright C 2005 Michel Arboi Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

security flaw

Heap-based buffer overflow in Ethereal 0.9.15 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via the SOCKS dissector...

Multiple bugs in Ethereal

Format string bug in SOCKS protocol handling, heap overflow on NTLMSSP code...

security flaw

Ethereal 0.9.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly excecute arbitrary code via the 1 SOCKS, 2 RSVP, 3 AFS, or 4 LMP dissectors, which can be caused to core dump...