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openSUSE Leap 15.2: Important Security Update for Tor Announced

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical patch released for tor addresses vulnerabilities impacting openSUSE Leap 15.2. Apply updates for improved robustness and security.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for tor fixes the following issues:

tor was updated to 0.4.5.6:

*

https://archive.torproject.org/websites/lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2021-February/000214.html

* Introduce a new MetricsPort HTTP interface

* Support IPv6 in the torrc Address option

* Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST

* Try to read N of N bytes on a TLS connection

tor was updated to 0.4.4.7:

* https://blog.torproject.org/new-releases-tor-03513-0438-and-0447/

* Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services

* Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level

* Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library

* Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms

* Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly

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

boo#1178741)

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-2021-316=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

tor-0.4.5.6-lp152.2.6.1

tor-debuginfo-0.4.5.6-lp152.2.6.1

tor-debugsource-0.4.5.6-lp152.2.6.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178741

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0316-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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