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

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-3773
2013-03-12 22:37:06
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Name        : tor
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.2.3.25
Release     : 1702.fc17
URL         : https://www.torproject.org
Summary     : Anonymizing overlay network for TCP (The onion router)
Description :
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 circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each relay, which reveals
the downstream relay.

Warnings: Tor does no protocol cleaning.  That means there is a danger
that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to
reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and
similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. This is alpha code,
and is even more likely than released code to have anonymity-spoiling
bugs. The present network is very small -- this further reduces the
strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for
high-stakes anonymity.

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Update Information:

Significant package cleanup, including:
- remove dependency on fedora-usermgmt
- merge tor-core, tor-systemd and torify into previously empty tor package
- remove unnecessary /var/run/tor
- disallow group read for /var/log/tor
- use --defaults-torrc as recommended by upstream
- increase LimitNOFILE in tor.service from 4096 to 32768
- torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks (#908569)
Fix outstanding security issues, plus package cleanup
torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Mar 11 2013 Jamie Nguyen <jamielinux at fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.3.25-1702
- add missing %{?dist}
- remove dependency on fedora-usermgmt
- merge tor-core, tor-systemd and torify into previously empty tor package
- remove unnecessary custom LDFLAGS
- remove unnecessary /var/run/tor
- disallow group read for /var/log/tor
- use --defaults-torrc as recommended by upstream
- fix URL to https
- increase LimitNOFILE in tor.service from 4096 to 32768, as advised by
  upstream: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8368#comment:4
* Thu Feb  7 2013 Jamie Nguyen <jamielinux at fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.3.25-1701
- torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks (#908569)
* Wed Feb  6 2013 Jamie Nguyen <jamielinux at fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.3.25-1700
- add additional %configure options for user and group
- add --defaults-torrc to systemd service to make sure sane defaults are set
  unless explicitly overridden
- remove unnecessary BuildRoot tag
- remove unnecessary rm -rf RPM_BUILD_ROOT
- remove unnecessary %clean section
- remove unnecessary defattr's
- fix Requires for torify subpackage
- update scriptlets to latest systemd guidelines
- aesthetic changes to the SPEC for clarity and readability
* Sat Sep 22 2012 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.2.39-1700
- updated to 0.2.2.29
- CVE-2012-4419: assertion failure when comparing an address with port
  0 to an address policy
- CVE-2012-4422: assertion failure in tor_timegm()
* Sun Aug 19 2012 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.2.38-1700
- updated to 0.2.2.38
* Tue Jun 12 2012 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.2.37-1700
- updated to 0.2.2.37
* Sat May 26 2012 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.2.36-1700
- updated to 0.2.2.36
* Fri Apr 13 2012 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 0.2.2.35-1703
- build with -fPIE
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #880310 - CVE-2012-5573 tor: denial of service when handling SENDME cells
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880310
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update tor' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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