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tor: denial of service

Package(s):tor CVE #(s):CVE-2012-4419
Created:September 14, 2012 Updated:February 4, 2013
Description:

From the Debian advisory:

By providing specially crafted date strings to a victim tor instance, an attacker can cause it to run into an assertion and shut down

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2548-1 2012-09-13
Mageia MGASA-2012-0276 2012-09-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1278-1 2012-10-02
Gentoo 201301-03 2013-01-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-14650 2013-02-03
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:132 2013-04-10
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