Update Info

openSUSE-2021-334


Security update for tor


Type: security
Severity: moderate
Issued: 2021-02-23
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)

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

              

Packages


  • tor-0.4.5.6-bp152.2.6.1