ubuntu · CVE-2011-4897

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Priority: medium Published: 2011-12-23 03:59:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-4897 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (tor), 9 status rows across 9 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, upstream): not-affected 4, ignored 3, DNE 2.

Description:

Tor before 0.2.2.25-alpha, when configured as a relay without the Nickname configuration option, uses the local hostname as the Nickname value, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading this value.

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