{"id":"MGASA-2017-0008","summary":"Updated tor package fixes security vulnerability","details":"It was discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous\ncommunication system, may read one byte past a buffer when parsing\nhidden service descriptors. This issue may enable a hostile hidden\nservice to crash Tor clients depending on hardening options and malloc\nimplementation (CVE-2016-1254).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:01.889765331Z","published":"2017-01-06T09:53:08Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-1254"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0008.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19996"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-02812-released"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3741"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tor","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/tor?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.2.8.12-1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0008.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}