openSUSE Security Update: Security update for tor ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:3282-1 Rating: moderate References: #1005292 #1016343 Cross-References: CVE-2016-1254 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Description: This update for tor updates to version 0.2.8.12 and fixes the following issues: - a hostile hidden service could cause tor clients to crash (boo#1016343, CVE-2016-1254) - updated fallback directory list - updated geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open circuits as needed to serve that request - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before starting to handle them Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1526=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64): tor-0.2.8.12-3.1 tor-debuginfo-0.2.8.12-3.1 tor-debugsource-0.2.8.12-3.1 References: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1254.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1005292 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1016343