This update for tor fixes the following issues:
Changes in tor:
- Update to 0.4.9.9
* Major bugfixes (compression, security):
- Fix a compression bomb bypass where an attacker could concatenate
many gzip or zlib sub-streams, each just under the per-stream
detection threshold, to avoid the compression bomb check entirely.
TROVE-2026-022. Fixes bug 41275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
- Fix an infinite loop when decompressing a truncated zlib/gzip
stream with done=1. A truncated stream never reaches Z_STREAM_END,
causing zlib to return Z_BUF_ERROR with no input remaining, which
buf_add_compress() mistook for a full output buffer and retried
forever. Fixed by returning TOR_COMPRESS_ERROR in that case so the
caller can abort cleanly. TROVE-2026-021. Fixes bug 41274; bugfix
on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
* Major bugfixes (conflux, security):
- Fix a NULL write after free when sending a CONFLUX_SWITCH cell
fails. The return value...
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tor-0.4.9.9-bp160.1.1
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