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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:1970-1 Important: tor DoS and Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant announcement for openSUSE resolves three issues within tor, boosting protection from possible threats and providing crucial patches.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for tor fixes the following issues:

Updating tor to a newer version in the respective codestream.

- tor 0.3.5.12:

* Check channels+circuits on relays more thoroughly (TROVE-2020-005,

boo#1178741)

* Not affected by out-of-bound memory access (CVE-2020-15572,

boo#1173979)

* Fix DoS defenses on bridges with a pluggable transport

* CVE-2020-10592: CPU consumption DoS and timing patterns (boo#1167013)

* CVE-2020-10593: circuit padding memory leak (boo#1167014)

- tor 0.4.4.6

* Check channels+circuits on relays more thoroughly (TROVE-2020-005,

boo#1178741)

* Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access (CVE-2020-15572,

boo#1173979)

* Fix logrotate to not fail when tor is stopped (boo#1164275)

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important memory access out-of-bounds openSUSE tor

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1970=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1970=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1970=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1970=1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1970=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

tor-0.4.4.6-lp152.2.3.1

tor-debuginfo-0.4.4.6-lp152.2.3.1

tor-debugsource-0.4.4.6-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

tor-0.3.5.12-lp151.2.6.1

tor-debuginfo-0.3.5.12-lp151.2.6.1

tor-debugsource-0.3.5.12-lp151.2.6.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

tor-0.4.4.6-bp152.2.3.1

tor-debuginfo-0.4.4.6-bp152.2.3.1

tor-debugsource-0.4.4.6-bp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

tor-0.3.5.12-bp151.3.6.1

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

tor-0.3.5.12-25.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10592.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10593.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15572.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1164275

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167013

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1167014

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173979

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178741

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1970-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 openSUSE Leap 15.1 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 e.

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