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Tails stands for The amnesic incognito live system and is a live Linux distribution that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It uses Debian GNU/Linux as a base and adds a Gnome environment with Tor, Tor Browser, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Electrum, LibreOffice, GPG and KeePassXC. For more information please refer to this page. Version 5 is based on Debian 11 and, among other things, OpenPGP has been replaced by Kleopatra. The following changes and improvements have been made in version 5.10:

Changes and updates

Fixed problems

  • Avoid crashing when the download of an upgrade is stopped and resumed. (#18435)
  • Solve a possible privilege escalation through a symlink attack. (#19424)

    Dennis Brinkrolf discovered that an adversary who could already run arbitrary code as the amnesia user in Tails 5.9, could have escalated their privileges to reading arbitrary files on the system. It might have been possible to use this as part of an exploit chain to gain root privileges.

Persistent Storage

  • Avoid opening the Persistent Storage settings each time after login. (#19410)
  • Solve some cases of failure to activate the Persistent Storage by bumping the unlocking timeout to 120 seconds. (#19432)

For more details, read our changelog.

Version number 5.10
Release status Final
Operating systems Linux
Website Tails
Download https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html
License type GPL
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