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

openSUSE-SU-2021:0461-1: moderate: Security update for tor

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for tor
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0461-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1183726
Cross-References: CVE-2021-28089 CVE-2021-28090
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.2
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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

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  https://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 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