{"id":"MGASA-2015-0151","summary":"Updated tor packages fix security vulnerabilities","details":"\"disgleirio\" discovered that a malicious client could trigger an assertion\nfailure in a Tor instance providing a hidden service, thus rendering the\nservice inaccessible (CVE-2015-2928).\n\n\"DonnchaC\" discovered that Tor clients would crash with an assertion failure\nupon parsing specially crafted hidden service descriptors (CVE-2015-2929).\n\nIntroduction points would accept multiple INTRODUCE1 cells on one circuit,\nmaking it inexpensive for an attacker to overload a hidden service with\nintroductions. Introduction points now no longer allow multiple cells of\nthat type on the same circuit.\n\nThe tor package has been updated to version 0.2.4.27, fixing these issues.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T01:46:49.595243403Z","published":"2015-04-15T09:01:28Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-2928","CVE-2015-2929"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0151.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15639"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02512-and-0267-are-released"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3216"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tor","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/tor?arch=source&distro=mageia-4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.2.4.27-1.mga4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0151.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}