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Fedora 17 : tor-0.2.3.25-1702.fc17 (2013-3773)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65671

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Significant package cleanup, including :

 - remove dependency on fedora-usermgmt

 - merge tor-core, tor-systemd and torify into previously empty tor package

 - remove unnecessary /var/run/tor

 - disallow group read for /var/log/tor

 - use --defaults-torrc as recommended by upstream

 - increase LimitNOFILE in tor.service from 4096 to 32768

 - torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks (#908569) Fix outstanding security issues, plus package cleanup torify subpackage should depend on torsocks not tsocks

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected tor package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880310

http://www.nessus.org/u?19d872d6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65671

File Name: fedora_2013-3773.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5573

FEDORA: 2013-3773