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openSUSE Leap 16.0 tor Moderate Security Update 2026-20889-1

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for openSUSE Leap 16.0 addressing multiple security flaws in tor with moderate severity issues.
An update that solves various issues can now be installed.

Description

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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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

tor-0.4.9.9-bp160.1.1

References

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20889-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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