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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:0578-1 Moderate: LibXML2 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE update addresses several denial of service vulnerabilities in tor, rated at moderate severity, which bolsters overall system protection.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for tor fixes the following issues:

tor was updated to 0.4.5.7

*

https://archive.torproject.org/websites/lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2021-March/000216.html

* Fix 2 denial of service security issues (boo#1183726)

+ Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable

information to disk (CVE-2021-28089)

+ Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus

document that could be used to crash a directory authority

(CVE-2021-28090)

* Ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location Database

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-2021-461=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

tor-0.4.5.7-lp152.2.9.1

tor-debuginfo-0.4.5.7-lp152.2.9.1

tor-debugsource-0.4.5.7-lp152.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28089.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28090.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183726

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0461-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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