A tor security update has been released for openSUSE Leap 15.2 to address security issues.

openSUSE-SU-2021:0316-1: moderate: Security update for tor

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for tor
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0316-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1178741
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
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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://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/node/1990
* 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 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