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Debian DSA-3993-1 : tor - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103716

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the Tor onion service could leak sensitive information to log files if the 'SafeLogging' option is set to '0'.

The oldstable distribution (jessie) is not affected.

Solution

Upgrade the tor packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.9.12-1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/tor

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3993

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103716

File Name: debian_DSA-3993.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tor, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0380

DSA: 3993