glsa-202407-28.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202407-28">
    <title>Freenet: Deanonymization Vulnerability</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Freenet, which can lead to deanonymization due to path folding.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">freenet</product>
    <announced>2024-07-24</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-07-24</revised>
    <bug>904441</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="net-p2p/freenet" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">0.7.5_p1497</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">0.7.5_p1497</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Freenet is an encrypted network without censorship.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>This release fixes a severe vulnerability in path folding that allowed
to distinguish between downloaders and forwarders with an adapted
node that is directly connected via opennet.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>This release fixes a severe vulnerability in path folding that allowed
to distinguish between downloaders and forwarders with an adapted
node that is directly connected via opennet.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Freenet users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/freenet-0.7.5_p1497"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-07-24T06:10:44.345056Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-07-24T06:10:44.351516Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>