Software update: Tails 5.17.1
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 Version 5 is based on Debian 11 and, among other things, OpenPGP has been replaced by Kleopatra.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 5.17.1:
Tails 5.17.1
This release is an emergency release to fix a critical vulnerability in Tor Browser. We’d like to dedicate this Tails release to Debian developer Abraham Raji who tragically lost his life in an accident on the 13th of September, 2023.
Changes and updates
- Update Tor Browser to 12.5.4 which fixes CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in libwebp.
- Update Tor to 0.4.8.5.
For more details, read our changelog. See the list of long standing issues.
| Version number | 5.17.1 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Linux |
| Website | Tails |
| Download | https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html |
| License type | Prerequisites (GNU/BSD/etc.) |