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tor: denial of service

Package(s):tor CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5573
Created:December 7, 2012 Updated:March 25, 2013
Description: From the openSUSE advisory:

Tear down the circuit when receiving an unexpected SENDME cell. Prevents circumvention of the network's flow control, exhaustion of network resources and possible denial-of-service attacks on entry nodes

Alerts:
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1624-1 2012-12-07
Mageia MGASA-2012-0356 2012-12-07
Gentoo 201301-03 2013-01-08
Fedora FEDORA-2013-3434 2013-03-16
Fedora FEDORA-2013-3773 2013-03-24
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