{"id":"MGASA-2016-0356","summary":"Updated tor packages fix security vulnerability","details":"It has been discovered that Tor treats the contents of some buffer chunks\nas if they were a NUL-terminated string. This issue could enable a remote\nattacker to crash a Tor client, hidden service, relay, or authority\n(CVE-2016-8860).\n\nThe tor package has been updated to version 0.2.8.9, which fixes this\nissue and several other bugs, including other security issues fixed in\n0.2.8.6.  See the release announcements for details.\n","modified":"2026-04-16T01:46:48.097779658Z","published":"2016-10-25T23:11:42Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-8860"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0356.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19145"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0286-released"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0287-released-important-fixes"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0288-released-important-fixes"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0289-released-important-fixes"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3694"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tor","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/tor?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.2.8.9-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0356.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}