Den søndag den 29. januar 2017 kl. 12.36.04 UTC+1 skrev Joonas Lehtonen: > Hi, > > whonix-gw apparently uses tor 0.2.8.10, the latest 0.2.8.x version being > 0.2.8.12 (released 2016-12-19). > > Why is it not updated? > I guess there is very little risk in upgrading from 0.2.8.10 to 0.2.8.12. > > I'm using a default whonix-gw template with > deb http://deb.whonix.org jessie main > > From the tor 0.2.8.12 changelog: > > > o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8): > > - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single > > byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used > > to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) > > to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- > > hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of > > their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on > > 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- > > 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. > > > > https://deb.whonix.org/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages: > > > > > Package: tor > > Version: 0.2.8.10-1~d80.jessie+1 > > Architecture: amd64 > > Maintainer: Peter Palfrader <wea...@debian.org> > > Installed-Size: 3935 > [...] > > Priority: optional > > Section: net > > Filename: pool/main/t/tor/tor_0.2.8.10-1~d80.jessie+1_amd64.deb > > Size: 1422520 > > SHA256: b36f5e8fc4590f6fa8431e7114fb187ce9f892f406b9bc55cdf28ef611320f89 > > SHA1: afb6720c65df114b772d02554f563fdbb385b7b7 > > MD5sum: 7a9c9fd5616f51eec6420d3254273ee3
My guess is lack of time and funding. Qubes definitely could need better funding. The Qubes team are doing a great job, but they might be limited on what they can manage to get done because there are so many things on the to-do list. Maybe this will change with the new upcoming funding plans, it would be very positive change if so. For the time being, I suppose you can install your own updated Whonix? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/0c983015-6f44-441f-9a4d-748d07d29fed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
