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Tor and Torsocks updates



On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:27:32AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> For people using tor...
> 
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0289-released-important-fixes
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-October/011579.html

    * Fix memcpy buffer overrun in gethostbyaddr()
    * Fix memcpy() buffer overrun in gethostbyname()


Modifications of these were exploitable at least 20 years ago ;)

Probably tor will have hard time showing they are not exploitable,
especially when they lack exploit imagination.

Did I troll that tor allows remote code execution? (Certainly).