Freenet: Deanonymization Vulnerability A vulnerability has been discovered in Freenet, which can lead to deanonymization due to path folding. freenet 2024-07-24 2024-07-24 904441 remote 0.7.5_p1497 0.7.5_p1497

Freenet is an encrypted network without censorship.

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.

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Freenet users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/freenet-0.7.5_p1497" graaff graaff