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openSUSE: 2021:0334-1 Moderate: Tor Issues Fix Announced

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This system patch resolves issues in tor relevant to Fedora, improving robustness and safety enhancements.
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)

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update...

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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 Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-334=1

Package List

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

tor-0.4.5.6-bp152.2.6.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178741

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0334-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2

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