1 [[!meta date="Mon Nov 22 11:20:24 2009"]]
2 [[!meta title="Ineffective firewall-level Tor enforcement"]]
4 [[!tag security/fixed]]
6 The `openntpd` package is not installed anymore since commit
7 bf8cc787ce46e9946ab47d5383feb1174da3f22a (20091006). The `ntpd` user
8 is then non-existent on built amnesia systems.
10 This user is however mentioned in `/etc/firewall.conf`.
11 `iptables-restore` being apparently picky about imperfect
12 configuration files, it refuses to load it, and the firewall-level Tor
13 enforcement is therefore not effective.
17 Some applications establish direct connections through the Internet,
18 not using the Tor network at all.
22 * iceweasel is not affected, thanks to the torbutton extension
23 * applications that take into account the relevant environment
24 variables (namely `http_proxy`, `HTTP_PROXY`, `SOCKS_SERVER` and
25 `SOCKS5_SERVER`) are not affected
26 * any other application, such as Pidgin or Thunderbird, is probably
31 This problem has been fixed in [[Git|contribute/git]] commit 9c425e8de13e6b4f885.
35 No released amnesia version is affected.
37 Custom images built from Git snapshots equal of after
38 bf8cc787ce46e9946ab47d5383feb1174da3f22a (20091006), and before
39 9c425e8de13e6b4f885 (excluded), are affected.